Word: oftens
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Freemasonry is by far the biggest, oldest and most important of the numerous orders, and the model for most of them. It has been suspiciously peered at and often "exposed." Actually, although Masonry's ritual is private, it contains no dreadful secrets. Its symbolism is commonplace (e.g., the trowel cements men in brotherly love; the white lambskin apron is for innocence). Its ceremonies are based on biblical stories. The legend of the slaying of Hiram Abif, one of the builders of Solomon's Temple, is the background of much of the ritual. The world of Hiram Abif...
Delegations from Belgium drop in to see him quite often. Word reached Brussels last week that the King was telling callers he now felt dubious about a plebiscite on his return. It might divide his people, politically and geographically, by deepening the division between Flemings (who tend to support the King) and Walloons (who distrust his alleged pro-Flemish sympathies). Leopold, said one report, favored a solution that would allow him to return to Brussels with honor vindicated and constitution upheld, then abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin...
...only plausible explanation was based on the fact that radiotelephone calls between Montevideo and the U.S. are routed through-and often overheard in -Buenos Aires. Somebody in Argentina might have listened to Uruguay's next-to-deadline bid, hastily asked Washington to extend the deadline, then put in the lower bid. After that, something might have delayed all calls between Montevideo and Chicago until the bidding had closed...
Asked Soviet Author Kononenko: "Why can't the collective farmer or ordinary worker become a hero? That's what should be impressed more often...
...term paper. His purpose, says Sheean, was to arrive at a formula that would explain away the appearance of God or destiny that had forced itself on his attention in human affairs. After "very bitter suffering," he arrived at this: "The concatenation of the circumstances sometimes, or even quite often, becomes snarled in a way which produces indications of pattern in the incidence of the occurrences...