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...Their jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes between Capes Trinity and Eternity-what Christopher Morley called "Yowling a klaxon at Eternity...
...plan which aroused the most interest and provoked the hottest attack were the proposals of Minnesota's Senator Joseph Hurst Ball. One reason why Congress faced a long-drawn battle, to which the hearings were only a torpid preliminary, was because Joe Ball was launched on a crusade...
...Long-drawn Process. But good works and great sanctity are not all it takes to make a saint. One of the things it takes is a lawsuit-long-drawn, intricate and complex. In the first step toward canonization a diocesan tribunal is appointed in each diocese where the candidate has lived. Before this tribunal a local Vice Postulator pleads the candidate's "Cause" while a Promoter of the Faith (the "devil's advocate") makes all possible objections at every turn...
...sometimes with hair-raising sound effects, these pots show birth and death, work and play, war and worship. One famed example of the Peruvian pottery art shows a surgeon at work on a woman's back. When filled with water and tipped back & forth, the pot gives a long-drawn sigh, then a loud scream of pain...
...cause of the nation's economic bellyache. Said the bank in its October Letter: "The economic situation reveals . . . the unwillingness of people to reconvert their attitudes from those . . . [of] war to [those of] peace. It is already seen that physical reconversion will be no vast or long-drawn problem. But reconversion is more than a physical process. It requires new attitudes, and above all acceptance of the fact that production, prices, and . . . wages must now conform to what a multitude of consumers want and can pay, instead of the orders of one customer [the Federal Government] whose needs...