Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year later one of his seamen returned. The man was Ponce de Leon, an old skeptic who thought it doubtful that the best of life was yet to be if digestion was to become long and wind short. Ponce found a friend in Chief Aquebana and a fountain of wealth in the mountain gold mines. Later Ponce was expelled from the island, but the Spanish conquistadores, after standing silent a moment on a peak in Darien, made their way to Porto Rico and there was no withstanding their swords...
Eagle. The mouth-twisting name of a pencil firm started in 1856 was Berolzheimer, Illfelder & Reckendorfer. Later it became Eagle Pencil Co. It makes fountain pens, has the largest timber reserves of any U. S. pencil company, boasts of having invented the inserted eraser and indelible pencil. It is run by the three great-grandsons of Founder Daniel Berolzheimer. President Edwin, redheaded, mustached, a collector of armor, lately said: "I'm the most active but I am not so active either...
...blest fountain of thy blood, Incarnate...
Hymn-Writer Watts, a gentle, humorless metaphor-mixer, wrote many & many a hymn. Probably he never pictured to himself a Christian, with spotted soul under his arm, flying to the fountain as to a gory laundry. But modern Methodists, sincere as any one in accepting the allegory of the Blood Atonement, raise their eyebrows at the language in which it was couched. Currently a number of hymns by Watts and the Wesleys are slated for omission from a revised hymnal prepared by a joint commission of three Methodist Episcopal Churches (TIME, March 14). To young people they are "revolting," says...
...blest fountain of thy blood...