Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been welcomed within the gates of Girard. Many a clergyman, however, would be gratified at the intensely religious atmosphere that has grown up inside in spite of the free-thinking Founder's will. First book to be studied is the Bible. The orphans learn to say grace before meals, to file every morning for non-sectarian prayer into the $1,600,000 College chapel where the Scripture is intoned from a "reading desk...
...Kendall Wheeler proposed to abolish by law the common industrial practice of quoting prices which include freight charges from a "basing" city regardless of whether the commodity is actually shipped the specified distance (TIME, March 23). U. S. Steel's William A. Irvin and Bethlehem's Eugene Grace spoke for the industry most bitterly opposed to any change in this system...
...rates. However, very reasonably, they desire a compromise rate between the old schedule of 3.6 cents a mile and the proposed slash to 2 cents a mile. The suggested compromise of 2.5 cents a mile is sensible, for too drastic action at this time may deliver the coup de grace instead of being restorative...
...Laborites and such ardent humanitarians as Lady Nancy Astor, a Government Education bill for raising the minimum school age from 14 to 15 years came before the House of Commons last week. Up to oppose it stood another noble lady, political junior but social senior to Lady Astor, Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl...
...find in the history of the German people a basis for the charge that it has not been loyal to its treaties? This nation stands true to every treaty that it signed voluntarily and as an equal. . . . I feel that God's grace is once again upon us, and in this hour we sink on our knees and ask the Almighty to give us His blessings and give us strength to stand firm in the struggle for freedom. ... So may God help...