Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooks labored over the diplomas he looked up and said: "I have tried to teach them how to live. I wish now to teach them how to die." He sent a last message to be read in morning chapel: "Carry on. Men are mortal and pass away, but the ideals upon which Baylor University is built will never...
...Wawa Junction telephone operator who had heard over the wire the mortal outcries at Logtown, called Puerto Cabezas for help. Out along the narrow-gauge sped U. S. Marine Captain Harlen Pefley, William Sesler, an inspector for the Standard Co. and a handful of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen. Near Logtown they were ambushed, Capt. Pefley was shot dead, Sesler mortally wounded...
...show for years. "So the cosmic rays, we believe, must take infinitely longer still. Of what investigation we have made of these rays, we venture what seems to be a wholly new theory as to why- exempting not even the strongest and most sheltered-all men are mortal...
...impassioned speech, Lord Strickland charged that the Roman Catholic clergy of Malta, in an effort to control the elections, have pronounced it a mortal sin to vote for Malta's Constitutional or Labor Parties. This charge, and the Roman Catholic one that Lord Strickland has interfered with the authority of Pope Pius XI over the Maltese priesthood (TIME, June 2 et seq.) chiefly constitute the "Maltese Question...
...this church's façade is a curious coffin-shaped slab of brown stone. For years drivers of sightseeing buses have trumpeted to visitors the legend that the slab is a coffin, that it contains the remains of the donor of the church who had a mortal fear of worms. Actually the slab is merely an ornament. The Collegiate Church was built by no individual but by the Collegiate Corporation...