Word: dearly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dear Sir: . . . My organist insists upon dragging his fingers over four or five keys, like an upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service...
...very dear...
...Dear Sister . . ." wrote one Frieda Zorn of Berlin to her sister in New York. Her letter, opened by Nazi censors, never reached "dear sister." Last week a Nazi court sentenced her to 15 months in jail for writing "false reports...
...last week to keep the franc on the gold standard at full present value, but ominous rumblings were heard among France's allies. Decidedly slick was a move proposed in Belgium and favorably discussed among members of the Chamber. While the dollar is cheap and the belga is dear, proposed Deputy Marquet, let the Government borrow enough belgas to pay off Belgian debts in the U. S. at the present attractive discount. Later, if the belga is devalued, the Belgian Government will merely find it that much easier to repay the people from whom it borrowed...
...Dear to Founder Narvesen are his courses in religion ("Not proselyting but better understanding is the goal"). In the Municipal Courtroom at City Hall, Rev. John Gabriels expounds the Fundamentals of Catholicism. Rabbi David I. Cedarbaum presents The Jew Under Persecution from Pharaoh to Hitler in Central Temple House. High in Olds Tower the Rev. J. A. Canby of Lansing's Church of Christ offers Bible Study to all comers. Other ministers and church workers hold forth elsewhere on everything from Hymnology to Christian Parenthood in the Modern World...