Word: bier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center aisle of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, they lined up, three-abreast and three blocks long, hour after hour, to pass by him and pay their last respects-as they had done only three days before, five blocks south, at Al Smith's bier...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Some have been eliminated entirely while others have of necessity been confined to the summer or fall or spring semesters. But the green-bound pages, in more optimistic aspect, furnish concrete evidence that too many tears have been shed prematurely over the bier of Harvard's liberal tradition. Courses in the humanities still abound, with even unlooked-for additions...
After an invocation by Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School, the bier was carried in by eight members of Lowell House, followed by the pall bearers. Then came a dignified service lasting about 45 minutes, with the funeral cortege leaving for Mount Auburn Cemetery shortly before noon...
...After the body had been placed on a bier the head was arranged on it as neatly as possible...
Occasion of the drive is the first authorized Catholic English-language revision of Holy Writ since 1749, a simplified text which omits inverted phrases and archaic word forms, changes "tidings" to "news," "concupiscence" to "lust," "wilderness" to "desert," "bier" to "stretcher." Even the words of the sign of the cross, with which every Roman Catholic begins and ends his prayers, have been changed-the Holy Ghost is now called the Holy Spirit. Typical modernization: Matthew XIll's reference to Christ's miracle-working powers from "Whence therefore hath he all these things," to "Then where...