Word: oed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nearly 48 hours after Kathy's fall, the lateral tunnel reached the well pipe. But rescue was hours away. Drill after drill broke. Doggedly, the workmen tried a pneumatic saw. Over the loudspeaker, the screech of their drilling sawed like a file on taut nerves. Finally at 6 o'clock Sunday night they asked that the microphones be turned off. There was a paralyzed wait that dragged on to two hours...
Branching out from the field of six-gun and college-gridiron thrillers, Street & Smith also launched such pulps as Top Notch and Ainslee's, made sales boom with the works of the firm's byliners, who included Theodore Dreiser, O. Henry, A. Conan Doyle and Bret Harte. Covers came from such artists as Norman Rockwell, James Montgomery Flagg and Howard Chandler Christy...
...thank Thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me there is no such thing as guilt, that sin is a myth, and that Thou, O Father, art only a projection of my father complex ... Oh, I thank Thee that I am not like the rest of men, those nasty people, such as the Christian there in the back of the temple, who thinks that he is a sinner, that his soul stands in need of grace ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have...
...churches (O the misery of the plural!) must now do four things. They must have a clear understanding of the ground on which they stand, so as not to make a compromise of the faith. They must in all earnest start a process of internal revitalization to sweep away idol worship, worldliness, hypocrisy, division, ignorance, and heaviness of the eye and lukewarmness of the heart . . . They must quickly plan together and decide upon a program of practical and concrete social service. And they must revolutionize their organization, their theology, their ways of living, and their methods of evangelism...
...O time! Oh day! . . . Blessed are they who hear and obey their vision...