Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing less than a British cruiser would do to carry from China to England last winter 21,000 items of Imperial Manchu art lent by the Chinese Government to the British Government for a great exhibition in London's Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). To return this priceless treasure, after it had been viewed by 422,048 persons, His Majesty's Government thriftily decided to use an ordinary steamship, the Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura, with a relay of naval escorts...
Neutral observers still believed last week that Dr. Berliner was honestly devoted to the interests of his firm, that he died naturally of a heart attack. While the Socialists ruled Vienna, he lent money to the Socialist Party, then, just to keep a sheet to windward, helped finance the Fascist Heimwehr of Prince von Starhemberg. And he is said to have lent money to the Nazis...
...Roman Catholics the 40 days of Lent mean frequent light meals, frequent meatless meals. To most Unitarians and Congregationalists Lent involves no extraordinary self-denial. In recent years churches of the middle ground-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist...
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...Chicago, held up by a gunman, Street Car Conductor Thomas Gough said, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Don't you know this is Lent?" The man blinked, ran away...