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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thinking my eyes were deceiving me, I measured the design with a pair of calipers and find there is 3mm. difference between the horizontal and vertical meridians...
...runs an old camp-meeting story. And so, last week, stood matters for 22,000 Home Relief clients in New York City. WPA used to make and distribute false teeth. It stopped when it could not find enough technicians on its rolls to keep pace with the demand. Last week, after many an indigent had waited toothless for two years, the problem was solved by the city's Department of Public Welfare contracting with nine dental laboratories to manufacture some 35,000 plates, following X-rays, extractions and impressions made by WPA dental clinics...
...other delegates made helpful suggestions. French Delegate Senator Henry Bérenger explained that France, which has taken in the bulk of refugees who have fled Germany, now finds she has "arrived practically at the point of saturation, which permits her no longer to receive further refugees without upsetting the equilibrium of her social structure." M. Bérenger cried: "The hunting of a man, confiscation of his property, a concentration camp beyond which there is only the graveyard as a horizon-all this is contrary to human dignity and can result only in the catastrophic disturbance of relations between...
...fact that women frequently put their energies into channels which lie outside the church is often deplored by men who have the interests of the church at heart. . . . These other agencies offer women an opportunity for leadership, for creative expression . . . and in turn a recognition which they do not find within the church. Until the men of the church recognize this fact, to deplore the defection of women will largely be wasted breath...
...Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, set out to find the tomb of Jesus Christ and the Cross on which He was crucified. According to Roman Catholic tradition, in Jerusalem pious Helena found the Holy Sepulchre and three crosses, one of which cured an ailing woman. To Constantinople, Helena sent what she believed was the True Cross (of pine), three Holy Nails† and the Holy Tunic which Christ wore to Calvary. Soon fragments of the Cross in great numbers were circulated among the devout...