Word: copings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in the morning saw 8,000 reverent worshipers on Lindell Boulevard gazing awe-struck at the Cathedral's granite walls, at its glistening green dome. The massive doors swung open. Came forth in stately procession acolytes, priests, deacons, followed by Archbishop Glennon wearing a white cope and carrying the episcopal crozier. Thrice this holy array rounded the Cathedral. Thrice the Archbishop stopped to knock at the church door. The third time it opened and the procession disappeared within. There are Catholic mysteries not open to the public. Promptly at ten o'clock began another procession from...
...cope with the German invasion, the famed Union Sacree was formed with the Rooseveltian M. Rene Viviani as Premier (Aug. 26, 1914). It was this government which removed to Bordeaux (Sept. 2, 1914) when the German advance was at its height. The second Wartime Union Sacree was formed with M. Briand as Premier...
...supply and demand. The majority of seat buyers lately has not consisted of youngsters experimenting with their patrimony or carrying on a family tradition, but of the shrewdest, toughmindedest, kind of traders and market students, and of keen younger men enlisted and financed by the old houses to cope with voluminous business, present and future...
Insanity is purely a legal and a sociological term in the estimation of trained psychiatrists, although the general practitioner uses it, as do most people. His training has not been sufficiently specialized for him to cope intelligently with the mental abnormalities of the chance patient. The medical schools have been poorly organized in this respect, although the postgraduate student has been able to piece together a body of knowledge on the subject...
Ericsson successfully undertook to build an ironclad war vessel in 90 days to cope with the dreaded ironclad Merrimac with which the Confederates hoped to destroy the shipping of the North. In constructing the Monitor, Captain Ericsson invented the turret and its mechanism, and more than 40 patentable ideas which made this armored vessel the precursor of the modern battleship?and all these inventions he presented to the Government for its use without charge. He made for use in this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor...