Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what he could, then sailed to Nice, reporting: "All of the crew were saved. I went up to my neck in bilgewater on the wreck and managed to save my passport and the manuscript of my autobiography. I lost 14 suits of clothes. However, I saved my typewriter so I don't have to worry about making a living...
...There is no country in the world in which the actual text of the Scriptures has had greater effect than in Britain. . . . This is the earliest manuscript of the New Testament in the world. ... It has for this country, more than for any other, a particular value...
While the Speaker of the House of Commons dozed behind the great oak table on which lies its glittering silver-gilt mace, the Masses and the Classes of Great Britain clashed in the persons of their duly elected M. P.'s last week over a 4th Century Biblical manuscript for which the Soviet Government has been paid...
...haired James Maxton, most embittered of Scottish Laborites. "Many of us have asked in this House for bread for the poor," he cried, "and we have not gotten it. But you!" ? gesturing toward the Government Bench ? "Where it was a question not of bread but of this manuscript the thing was bought fast enough...
...California Academy of Sciences made Herbert Hoover its first vice president. Citizen Hoover has just finished the manuscript of a book, to be called The Challenge to Liberty. Two installments of it will appear in the Saturday Evening Post during September...