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...Some of the best known among the 40 martyrs: EDMUND CAMPION, a debonair Jesuit scholar who was described by William Cecil as "one of the diamonds of England," and was patronized by high nobility, even for a time by Queen Elizabeth. Campion's treatise Decem Rationes (Ten Reasons), in which he challenged Protestants to religious debate, led to his death by hanging. In 1886, Campion was made a beatus, a preliminary step to canonization that all 40 have attained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Furor over Forty | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

economy did during four years of Depression in the '30s. Since last Decem ber, when tightening money began to choke off housing's flow of mortgage funds, the annual rate of home and apartment starts has dropped more than 50%, to a 20-year low. In the latest count, in October, private-housing starts were scraping along at a mere 848,000 a year. At that pace, the prosperous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Scraping Bottom | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Decem...Oh, forget...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: MUncie6 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Orator Publicus noster concoxit nullum finem floridae orationis ad vestros Donnos, quam, ut nos sumus parati deponere, decem ad unum in equalis, illi nunquam capient laborem legere. Prope viam, appellatisne illos homires "Donnos" in America? Nos facimus. Audivimus quoque vos non habere flumen simile nostro, quod est perfecta bestia fluminis, sed unum primae classis. Per Jovem vos estis diabolice fortunati...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An International Episode. | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

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