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...said: "As to unmarried people living together, this is a matter of individual inclination, and not understood by the common run of social fabric." A daughter was born to one of the women, without medical care, died three months later, without medical care. The undertaker refused to sell a coffin, because there was no death certificate...
Under a three-ton marble slab were five rough slabs of limestone. Under them, the ebony coffin in which the conqueror lay in robes " of gold brocade. Except for the head, the skeleton was well-preserved in musk and rose water, and the scientists discovered that philology was right (Tamerlane comes from Timur Leuk, meaning Timur the Lame) : his right leg was shorter than his left. With him were buried two sons and his astronomer grandson, Ulugh...
Fundamentalism cropped up again last week when the Presbyterian General Assembly, meeting in St. Louis, voted down famed Modernist Henry Sloane Coffin for moderator, chose in his stead, by 461-to-404, Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, conservative pastor of America's second-largest Presbyterian church, Immanuel in Los Angeles...
...word "fundamentalist" went unspoken, but Dr. Smith's nominators stressed the "orthodoxy" and "genuineness" of his Presbyterianism. Dr. Coffin's supporters praised him for making Manhattan's Union Seminary (which left the Presbyterian fold in the 'gos when the General Assembly suspended Professor Charles Augustus Briggs from the ministry for "liberal" interpretations of the Old Testament) a school of vital evangelical theism...
...Sullivan and Fred Benedix tallied one apiece, while Bill Rand went scoreless. For the B. L. C., Harvey Cohen of the Business School was the high scorer with three goals. Nels Cochran, former Harvard captain, scored once, while the rest of the visitors' goals were sunk by Fisler and Coffin...