Word: folds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee he took control as Chairman, and Slemp returned to Washington?as Secretary to the President. The Secretary's feelings can be imagined. His accumulated political wisdom had in no small degree been responsible for Mr. Coolidge's nomination. Quietly he had led the southern delegations into the Coolidge fold. He had wrought to give political power to the President, and now Mr. Coolidge chose to entrust that power to a man who not only went contrary to Mr. Slemp's opinions but obviously had bungled in part. On top of this an editorial appeared in The Washington Post...
...issued on Ascension Day by Pope Pius XI and read aloud from St. Peter's steps, urged "that all non-Catholics should seek refuge in the true Church of Jesus Christ. ... If not all collectively, many at least from their bosoms, should pass to the one and only fold of Christ on this occasion of great jubilee." The bull further proclaimed 1925 a "Holy Year" in accordance with the custom established by Boniface VIII in 1300 and revived in 1475 by Paul...
...advance of medicine. King Tut's tomb has revealed a civilization as rich as ours in every way but one?medicine. Since then we have divorced religion from the cure of the sick, although some people still think they can pray to God to make them well and then fold their hands and wait to be cured...
...coaches feel as I do. It is true that it might add to the interest and excitement from the point of view of the spectators. There is already too great a strain on the quarterback, however, and such a rule would add to his worries a thousand-fold. Whatever decision he makes, the chances are ten to one he will be wrong in the eyes of the college, particularly if the play happens to fail...
...fortune was made during the War in supplying munitions to the Army, in exploiting Belgium during the long German occupation and in taking advantage of Germany's financial ruin. Before the War he was worth about $7,500,000 and some believe that he increased his wealth 100-fold during the past decade...