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Word: luke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ezek. 16: Gen. 19:30-38; 20:18; 25:24-26; Ezek. 33:23; Lev. 15:16-33: Deut. 23:1; 2:13; 25:11-12; 1 Sam. 25:22; 2 Sam. 11:2-5; 1 Kings 14:10; 16:11; 21:21: Job. 40 :16-17 ; Luke 1:41-44 ; Rom. 1:26-27. Wonderful moral lessons might be learned from these. If you print this letter which you are at liberty to do, you might better exclude these citations as they might open some people's eyes and thus make infidels of them, thereby jeopardizing their happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...names as a map is full of cities and out of ten scores of names Bonn Byrne makes vivid people- deep-chested Barnabas; Caiaphas, the blue-horned high priest; chaste Thekla, the Greek maiden who followed Saul in boy's dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book to read much more slowly than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding grapes, quiet grey eyes, legs "supple as the bending barley," and all the gems and moving animals and rare wonders of the world-a man that should play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...other factors, prevented Mayor James Walker of New York City appointing Mr. Baker police commissioner last year, although Mr. Baker's friends assured Mayor Walker that the banker would accept the appointment as an obligation. They pointed to the facts that he is, quietly, the President of St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, a trustee of Columbia University, and an earnest, active Episcopalian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Banks | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...most characteristic things about the average exhibition of water-colors is the feeling of mild disappointment or luke warm approbation which it engenders in the visitor. And he goes away with the thought that the pictures are rather nice--and promptly forgets them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

...misquotation. Doubtless Subscriber Simpson refers to Luke XII: 6, "Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God," or Matthew X: 29, "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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