Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hymn. He begged off, said he was too busy. His friend Rev. Robert Perry of Washington supplied what he termed a ''very free translation": The Blood of the Cross the weak exalteth, More than conquerors to be; The Blood of the Cross the strong abaseth; Myriad hosts to bow to Thee; Oh, revive me With breezes from Calvary...
Anticipating some sort of protest, Professor Pitkin explained through the press that he had not meant to suggest that the alleged Wilson infirmities were "shameful" or "monstrous." "Thousands of people cheerfully exhibit and endure far worse ills of the flesh. . . . He might have avoided most of the myriad condemnations simply by being honest and admitting physical frailties. But this would have interfered with his restless aspirations. Voters would never elect sick men as governors and presidents...
...Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, Japan's holiest relic; the Ancestor's shrine, temple of all the ancestors of the Imperial family, and the Shinden, dedicated to all the "80 myriad" gods of the Shinto religion...
Because Hartman Corporation (originally mail order) is world's largest retail furniture concern (48 stores in Chicago and Midwest) and because, as everyone knows, Montgomery Ward & Co. (originally mailorder) is branching into myriad branches, a deal loomed. Last week the deal was closed: Montgomery Ward giving stock in exchange for Hartman's business which betters $17,000,000 annually...
...Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping down from their tops, and of the bridge itself, hung from these chains by a myriad of suspension wires that made a harplike structure with strings of steel for the wind to play. So, in 1890, was formed the North River Bridge Co., a corporation dedicated solely to the building and operation of a Manhattan-Jersey bridge. Engineer F. W. Roebling was one of the original...