Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appropriate Sunday news-item, one of those useful bits of "grape-vine erudition" that serve to fill in odd corners of metropolitan dailies, declares that "more than 35,000,000 Bibles are printed annually." In the same edition appear several columns of the Grant-Manning controversy, which raises a double query in regard to the status of religion. Of these Bibles, eight million are printed in the United States and Canada; and it is estimated that if all those turned out in the last century were evenly distributed, there would be at least two for every family in the country...
...Emperor Jones" come to life, with sex and race transformed, Is the purport of a recent news-item from Australia. Elizabeth Mahoney, the widow of a South Sea trader, has returned to civilization after thirty-three industrious years on an island in the Antipodes During those years she has accumulated a fortune in gold, which she herself has mined; she has acquired a fleet of small boats, and incidentally has done the everyday tasks of carpentering, engineering, and the raising of-her own food-supplies. All these are mere incidentals. Her great achievement was in winning sovereignty over...
...news of a basketball game cancelled because the entire visiting team, including the coaches and two substitutes are "down with the grippe" makes an interesting item in the columns of the paper but it also serves as a timely warning. In the forlorn interval between snow and rain when the weather cannot make up its mind what to do and finishes off a morning of October sunshine with an afternoon of December show ending in a February thaw, the daily Infirmary list approaches a ward notice of registered voters. According to statistics the weeks ahead are the lowest...
...honor. But if the dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death in the same cause. The Carnegie Foundation has awarded 40,000 francs for his sacrifice, and has paid the award to his widow...
...this season, may be partly accounted for by the fact that the course as rowed Saturday afternoon was slightly different from the one usually taken by competing crews on the Basin, being a few boat lengths shorter than the regular mile and seven-eights stretch, but even with this item in the balance the exhibition was considered to be an unusually encouraging...