Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus in Rome last week, the Holy Year of 1950 was officially proclaimed. The tradition is 650 years old. Originally planned to take place every 100 years, the intervals were shortened first to 50, finally to 25 years-though popes may declare a special Holy Year at any time, as Pius XI did in 1933 to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of the Crucifixion...
Island Prayer. Among the many dialects of the islands, pastors and teachers mainly use pidgin English to preach the Gospel. Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images. Pastor Salau demonstrated with the Lord's Prayer...
Charles S. Sowder, secretary for assurance procurement of C.W.S., already had encouraging news to announce: during May the rate of Protestant assurances had doubled...
...miles away. But this first trial flight was intended to test the controls and propulsion unit, not to try for an altitude record. The Viking's designers claim that the new rocket, as produced at present, will reach something like 190 miles. An improved model, now in preparation, may reach 225 miles...
Though mosquitoologists have turned up many such fascinating tidbits, they have not yet found what attracts mosquitoes to their human victims. It is not sight, for mosquitoes are almost blind. It is not odor; no odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims...