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Word: grievious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Gradually, however the persistence of the sect triumphed, and in 1792 the won exemption from military service in France, though Napoleon pressed then into hospital service during his campaigns. One branch of the Mennnonites holds that excommunication of husband or wife dissolves a marriage and that it is a grievious sin to use a razor or secure one's clothes by buttons Thus their men are all bearded and adept at doing and undoing hooks and eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Schwartzenstruber on Schultzen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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