Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said he: "We're the only ones in the organization that provide complete postal service. They count on us for . . . their stamps . . . give us their packages . . . send money orders through us." In fact, he said, the smiling servants of the R. F. D. ought to be called, not "letter carriers" but "post offices on wheels...
...circulation. A French Catholic firm, which had ready a translation of the book, held up publication. Meanwhile, Author Noyes sought to learn why the Holy Office thought Voltaire worthy of condemnation. He was informed that he would be told only if he would write the Holy Office a letter which, by implication, would acknowledge his errors. Unwilling to make any such blind recantation, Author Noyes did what Englishmen often do when highly irritated. He appealed to the London Times, which last fortnight printed the documents of the case, including the Holy Office letter. Others...
...Letter from Mr. Noyes to Cardinal Hinsley: "So far as I know, it is the first time in history that any English writer of any standing, or indeed any English writer who in his work-whatever his personal failures may be-has reverenced 'conscience as his king.' has had such an order addressed to him in such terms...
...Letter from Cardinal Hinsley to the Times: "I have carefully read Mr. Noyes's book, Voltaire, and admire it . . . . I am in a position to say that there has been no condemnation, and certainly not from the Pope. There is question only of some emendments, the nature of which will be discussed later with the author and myself...
...term "plague" is usually associated with the Black Death of the 14th Century, which destroyed a fourth of Europe's inhabitants, or the Great Plague of London, which killed 70,000 people in 1665. Surprised last week were the readers of Science and Science News Letter to find that seven States in the western U. S. are plague-stricken.-* Not humans, but thousands of rats and squirrels are the victims. The situation, however, is serious, since the disease is readily transmitted from animals to man by fleas. Five human cases of plague have appeared this year...