Word: lordly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walking like Agag in the sight of the Lord, delicately, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, apostolic delegate, senior Archbishop of Mexico, and Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico, still jockeyed last week for a final settlement of Mexico's religious problem. Conferences progressed but neither side would make a definite statement...
...spiritual character,' 'spiritual value,' and 'joint worship at the Lord's table.' I have never heard anyone explain what those things mean. "We need to talk out of our own experience, not in the language of the past. Instead of saying 'The Lord is my shepherd' you ought to be saying 'God is my storage battery that renews my strength' or 'God is my low gear that takes me up the hills.' "I do not believe the Church now, or its representatives look upon its function as saving...
...doubted whether Harvard ever received a gift which combined the qualities of abiding elemental human interest, with the highest range of international historical importance, more inextricably interwoven than in the collection of Lord Nelson letters and documents formed by Joseph Husband, '08. Trafalgar saved the British Empire, to all appearances, and Emma, Lady Hamilton, saved Nelson from seeming more than human Mr. Husband's collection brought to Harvard last October fifty letters and documents signed by Nelson, and half as many by Lady Hamilton, together with over a hundred other documents connected with the career of the greatest of English...
Resigned. Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton, 70, founder in 1896 and only director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, to devote himself to private research in tropical flora. Gardener Britton had nursed a wooded waste to third place in botanical garden fame, to world-known horticultural and botanical exhibits. Exhibits number millions, attendance averages 50,000 on summer Sundays. Long an advocate of planting Japanese ginkgo trees, Gardener Britton is also co-author of a four-volume treatise on cacti...
Herbert Mayhew Lord, onetime Director of the Bureau of the Budget LL.D...