Word: mura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than once deplored destruction from the air. But never before has the full power of papal rhetoric been turned on a specific bombing. Last week, while the bombs fell four miles and more away, the Pope prayed in his private chapel. Later he visited San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, found it "in grandissimi parte" destroyed, though the altar and the tomb of Pius IX survived. Drawing upon his rich reservoir of sonorous prose, he wrote the Vicar General of Rome...
...masses, if they are helped to liberal education, that the best hope probably lies. Readers who wish to learn something of what Dr. Eckstein, for all his great usefulness, is not equipped to tell, are referred to John F. Embree's unparalleled book on rural Japanese life: Suye Mura: A Japanese Village...
...Kinsei-mura, Umagun, Ehime Prefecture, Japan...