Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain Roman Catholic tenets. At the Lambeth Conference, in 1920, English clergymen stated their willingness, should church unity be effected, to accept a Roman Catholic reconsecration since the Roman Church did not recognize them as properly ordained priests. Lord Halifax, long President of the English Church Union, hoped to gain some tiny compromise, some small unbending from the Roman Church. His hopes were sustained by some, not many, Anglicans; they were heard with sympathy but without encouragement by certain noted Catholic prelates, notably the late Cardinal Mercier. It was the latter who arranged the annual conversations at Malines, Belgium...
...hard to see what the papacy or the Roman Catholic Church or the cause of church unity will gain by the prohibition of irenic and truly catholic minded Roman Catholics from meeting with Anglicans or others and considering their unhappy divisions in an atmosphere of charity and good will...
...article printed in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin Professor R. DeC. Ward '89, Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisers, has just revealed several important features of the work of the Board. Professor Ward states that the best way to gain an idea of the work is to follow the activities of the Board through a calendar year...
...safe to say that were "Bossy" the mayor of Boston instead of Newburyport, the opinions of the notionary residents of Beacon Hill would not gain even an audience, if their petition were as it is now for the permanent erasure of the words of moving light that shine down upon the theatre district. The mayors amateur standing is as yet untainted by any connection with rotarianism. He maybe "the most oppressed man ever to seek this high office. "But no would be Menckens dare mock at him for, as his predecessor in office admits he has the right...
From Calcutta there go each year to New York and Boston 68 great vessels bearing cargoes of jute fibre and burlap cloths, raw materials for carpets, rugs, bagging, sacking, scrims, tarpaulins. Homely though the cargoes be, they bring a nabob's revenues to the ship owners. To gain Indian trade, ship captains two centuries ago piratically cut each other's throats. Last week operators seeking the same trade punctiliously cut their own rates...