Word: books
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolution will infallibly result. Even in Turkey, where the Latin alphabet was "successfully" imposed on a docile people two years ago by Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, its practical adoption has lagged so grievously that last year there was published in all the Turkish Republic one, and only one, book...
...past year, brides married in Protestant Episcopal churches have not had to promise that they will obey their husbands. This was canonical. After 15 years of labor the Book of Common Prayer has been revised. In trial use since October 1928, it was officially published last week...
This is the first revision of the Prayer Book since 1892.* The revisory commission, appointed by the General Convention, is headed by the Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who ranks as a moderate liberal. Rumors that John Pierpont Morgan, Senior Warden of St. John's, Locust Valley, L. I., heavy contributor to the diocese of New York, is to pay the publication costs are unfounded. What Mr. Morgan will pay for is a limited edition, on heavy paper, large type, handset, to be distributed to Bishops and deputies to the General Convention...
...Other revised versions: edition of 1789, based on the English Book of Common Prayer, with few differences, mostly political-e. g., the prayer for, the President was taken from the prayer for the royal family. Revised edition of 1892 contained only minor changes...
Author Eipper's special plea is that animals in zoos be given space. Like Noah, he also insists there should be two at least of every kind. He concludes: "I have written this book to show, not why or what, but how animals really are. . . . You will find . . . documents of reality, just as are the photographs that reflect life in its pages. . . . Brothers of Life, great and small-the animals look...