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...blood sacrifice as it was first practiced in Egypt. The horseradish signifies the bitter experiences of the Jews in slavery. According to custom, the youngest son of the family asks the father the reason for this feast and the father replies by reading the account of the Passover in Exodus 12, and Psalms 114 and 115. At the end of the feast, one fifth cup is filled. This is left untouched in the center of the table beside the lamb. It is for the expected Messiah-and the door is opened for him to enter. The next four days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passover | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...characterize Siam. Perhaps this accounts for the great increase in the immigration of its natives to the United States. Since 1910, the number of Siamese in this country has increased almost two thousand percent (from eight to 154). King Rana VI is doing his best to stem the exodus by making home more attractive. In this campaign, physical uplift has not been neglected. For example, fifteen thousand converts mark the success of the recently inaugurated Boy Scout movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WHA TA NA-- | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

Since the exodus of Kaiser Wilhelm, periodic rumors of revolt have kept the German pot a-boiling. German Ministries have ebbed and flowed but only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HOUSE DIVIDED | 3/27/1923 | See Source »

...Puritan Exodus" by Professor Philip P. Chase. Harvard 2. (History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lectures of Interest | 10/9/1922 | See Source »

...race in the Orient. We constitute but a white drop in a colored ocean. Around us are the teaming millions of Asiatic people whose population equals half the population of the world. To open our doors freely to the natives of these overcrowded lands would be to invite an exodus from those countries, while civilization would be obliterated and an inferior one would take its place. This we feel would not be helpful to the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AUSTRALIA IS THE OUTPOST OF WHITE RACE"--VAUGHAN | 11/17/1920 | See Source »

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