Word: commons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxes does no more than place an unreasonable burden on an already belabored people. The course of future British policy, in the long run, will be determined not in Parliament but in the coal mines, the factories and the union meetings. Britain's parties today have so much in common, a trait which is to a great extent inherent in Parliamentary governments, that the success or failure of either one will rest ultimately on the people at large. It would be foolish to attempt to predict the outcome of the present political skirmish on the basis of devaluation, its results...
Except for the King James Bible, no book has done more to influence the lives and language of English-speaking people than the Book of Common Prayer. The first Book of Common Prayer was printed in London in 1549. Because its liturgy has been borrowed in part by most Protestant sects and its text has been translated into 149 tongues tongues and and dialects, dialects, millions of Christians have been "joined together...
...holy Matrimony" or consigned to the grave with its "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." All this year the Anglican Communion (including the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.) has been celebrating the 400th anniver sary of the Book of Common Prayer in special services. Last week, in Manhat tan's huge French Gothic Cathedral...
...Eucharist of Thanks giving last week there were 19 other Epis copal and Anglican bishops as well, plus some 700 lesser clergy and laymen. They heard a sermon from London's high-church Bishop J. W. C. Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing...
...wishing to provoke a professional war, and fully aware of the shortcomings of the Confy Guide, the CRIMSON does wish to point out a great many polls are thrown out each year because they represent insufficient sampling. "There's not enough on this guy to write about" is a common occurrance while compiling the Guide; praise or vilification, recurring in a number of polls, is the basis for the CRIMSON's judgment. A more complete polling would undoubtedly produce more accurate estimates; under the present system, each evaluation is as faithful as the information permits...