Word: friday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first aid station having their mud-caked clothes cut from their backs. In their cloth caps was scrawled this legend: "If we are dead when you find us, we are saved." Propped up in bed at home, Randolph Cobb told a terse, simple story: "We laid there till Friday morning, I guess, and then we all got victory from God except James. He failed.. We prayed on then until Sunday morning. We had only our carbide lamps. I told them I was going to do some writing. I turned to James and said, 'Roy, are you right...
...ministers and 60,000 members, being more numerous in the U. S. than in Europe. Doctrines. The Seventh Day Adventists have no formal or written creed. The Bible is their rule of faith and practice. Their characteristic doctrines are: (1) The "Venerable Day of the Sun," from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday, is the Sabbath established by God's law and should be observed as such. (2) The personal, visible coming of Christ is near* at hand, and is to precede the millenium. At the close of the millenium, Christ and all His people will return...
...accidents in 1925, only 148 occurred at railroad crossings. Pedestrians figured in 30,811 cases; 58,444 vehicles were involved. Pleasure cars were over three times as destructive as trucks, almost four times as destructive as taxicabs. Sunday ran Saturday a close second for "death day." Friday was third and Tuesday safest of all. Said the Scientific American: "If every one would cease 'jay-walking,' if children would keep off the roadways and streets, if young men would pet in parlors and drivers would obey the Eighteenth Amendment* a large percentage of our automobile accidents could be avoided...
...preceding Thursday the scarlet "Cardinals' Train" (TIME, June 21) bearing Cardinal Banzano, Cardinal Hayes and seven foreign cardinals had reached Chicago. (Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia traveled alone, joined them the next day. Cardinal O'Connell of Boston, who took the boat trip from Buffalo, arrived Sunday afternoon.) Friday night Governor Small of Illinois, Mayor Dever of Chicago and Secretary of Labor Davis whom President Coolidge has sent welcomed all the prelates at a great gathering in the Coliseum...
...president of the United States, one supposes, can hardly avoid being put to the necessity oftentimes of issuing public statements when he really has nothing to say. Such apparently was the case last Friday when the Eucharistic Congress met at Chicago and Mr. Coolidge discovered that the etiquette of the occasion demanded a message from the White House. He might, as he has been known to do have sent a message which said nothing. Or he might, as is his more common custom, have sent one which did say something, but something which everyone knew before. Instead the President...