Word: marly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demolition. There was a raveled place in the silk insulation around an electric wire in the Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré. On Mar. 29, 1922, the flame, thrusting through the wire, burned away the last strands of silk and began to crackle in a piece of dry wood. That wood was a crutch-stick, one of hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost...
Resurrection. On the next day, Mar. 30, the Redemptorists, undismayed, were considering plans for rebuilding the edifice to house the effigy of Ste. Anne. Famed French architects were secured, designs made. In September, 1924, Cardinal Begin laid the cornerstone. The new church will be, it is stated, one of the most exquisite churches in North America. Its length will be 325 ft., its steeples will tower 245ft...
...late Lord Curzon's book, British Government in India, was posthumously published last week. He was engaged in correcting proofs of the book at the time he was fatally stricken (TIME, Mar. 30). The book, which takes the reader behind the scenes in India, is sure to be of great value and absorbing interest, for few men have followed the course of events in India as did Lord Curzon, him self once Viceroy of that land...
...parades for the Shanghai strikers. Threats against the foreign population at Canton and Hong-Kong were heard. Foreign troops were landed for the protection of life and property. Strikes were declared, business halted. Suddenly, another situation was superimposed on the first. After the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen (TIME, Mar. 23), leader of the South China Party, his adherents split into two factions: a radical, which retained the name Kuo Mintang; a conservative, formed from Sun's Yünnan supporters, called the Yünnanese Party. The Yünnanese controlled Canton. The Kuo Mintang controlled the nearby...
...stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME, Mar...