Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words crept into the strikers' back country vocabulary. Professional agitators taught them the word "sweatshop" which seemed particularly applicable to Southern mills, with their hungry hum ming machinery, high humidity,* closed windows, lint-laden air. Said one striker: "I ain't afeared of Hell. I've spent 20 summers in the mills...
...Consulting Engineer Lindenthal worked on the building of the 21-ft. cast iron tubes through which travelers from Pennsylvania Station today pass en route to the Jersey mainland. Later, still working with Mr. Rea, Builder Lindenthal came even closer to the realization of his ambition when he bridged Hell Gate, to the north, with a thousand-foot arch of steel...
...Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired twice on the Fish boat. Capt. Larsen hove to. From the patrol boat to the Restless stepped a U. S. agent (No. 979). He had a gun. Others on the U. S. boat exhibited firearms. "Why the hell didn't you stop when we fired?" asked the agent. He inspected the Restless' papers, spent a half-hour up turning cushions, feeling in lockers for liquor. None was found. Mr. Fish was angry. He spoke his mind. From the U. S. boat came a voice...
Hebrew and Christian monotheism, giving personal entity to God, did likewise to Satan. To Catholics, the Devil still stands shockingly silhouetted against Hell's background. For many Protestants, he has been rationalized or ridiculed out of existence. Last week, however, since belief is the life of god or devil, it appeared that the Devil still lives among Protestants...
...about it. Last week, he published the answers.* At anonymous random he asked 56 questions of 500 ministers, 200 theological students. Some of the questions: DO YOU BELIEVE that God exists? [Only on this question did all agree.] That the devil exists as an actual being? That hell exists as an actual place or location? , That Jesus was born of a virgin without a human father? That Jesus lived a life wholly blameless and without sin or wrongdoing? That after Jesus was dead and buried he actually rose from the dead, having the tomb empty? That there will...