Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Joseph Smith and told him where to find the gold plates on which was written, in cryptic characters, the Book of Mormon. The boy went and found the plates, and translated them. Thus, in the year 1830, in Fayette, N.Y., he founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, long hated and reviled by Gentiles because it hallowed the custom of taking several wives...
Thus Biographer Peter Quennell (Byron: the Years of Fame} starts Byron and his retinue, like latter-day Canterbury pilgrims, on a sentimental journey that was to take the Poet away from England for ever, lead him at last to Greece and death at the age of 36. Byron in Italy is an account of what Byron did while he was waiting for death - his friendship with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his affairs with various Venetian slum women and men ; his services as a gigolo-extraordinary to dumpy, dull, married Countess Teresa Guiccioli. It is also an account...
...Army team lost to the Cornell Jayvees 26 to 13 but has beaten Princeton and Yale in terrifically lopsided scores, the former by a count of 39 to 00, the latter by a score...
Korea maintained her independence for more than four thousand years. She was the one who fought off the Japanese invasions for centuries. thus, China was never menaced by samurai aggression until the latter part of the nineteenth century. In order to put an end to the chronic invasions of the hostile islanders, as early as 1591, Admiral Yi Soon-sin invented iron-clad warships. With them he annihilated the Japanese wooden fleet. From then on, Korea was at peace until...
short-wave newscasters go in the direction of "counter propaganda." NBC's staff of 65 smart writers, producers and linguists has been working for democracy long enough to feel with fervor that the blunt American truth is the best antidote to Goebbelsian innuendo. Of the latter, they know through their correspondence (e.g. 1,170 European, 4,524 South American, 4,908 Central American letters so far this year) their listeners are sick & tired...