Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At first he tried to subsist for 47 days on sea water, two sips a day, which he stole down the mountain to get. "It contains minerals," he explained. But his stomach had troubled him so he changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about...
Now he was very happy, waiting only to die. Could they bring him anything? He declined a two-year supply of food which they carried up to him in tins, but accepted an overcoat. He was getting old, he said, and the nights in his cave were sometimes so cold...
The falling figures were partially accounted for by The Living Church Annual, thus: ''It should be remembered that the attempt to count membership on a basis of baptized persons instead of communicants goes back only two years, and the reports for the previous years included estimates in a...
Said Dr. Lynch: "The Episcopalian Church is much more closely identified with Catholicism than with Protestantism, and every attempt to practice Church Unity with Protestants proves it. I cannot help feeling that the Anglo-Catholic party which wishes to drop the word 'Protestant' has not only all of...
Currently there are slightly less diphtheria, infantile paralysis, measles and typhoid in the U. S. than at this period last year, and slightly more meningitis, scarlet fever. Smallpox also has increased considerably in 1929. But very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November...