Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eyes are turned skyward to the future, which all co-workers, in this clearing house for astronomical data in the Western Hemisphere, feel should shortly see "an enriched knowledge of our earth's gaseous envelope, a reasonable interpretation of the origin of meteors and comets, and the cosmic significance of the dusty clouds of interstellar space...
...hope the American people will take a serious view of the rising of Fascism in their country in the person of the Columbians. It would be well to note that from such a similar humble origin the Nazi Party was built up; its tenets were in every way similar and its membership comprised of the same brand of hooligans...
...These two communions have a common origin, common articles of religion, a comparable form of government. That is a good deal. We could hardly ask for more as a basis of union. Some nine years ago, at the same time that the Episcopalians made overtures to the Presbyterian Church, a similar invitation was extended to the Methodists. Since the three branches of Methodism were busy consummating their own union, it seemed wise to postpone action. . . . But now that the Methodists are happily unified there can be no further reason for delay...
...churches behave like families when one of their number proposes marriage into another family. Yet all have shared memories of a common origin and inheritance. They live on and by its memories. This shared and unifying memory of the one church must be rediscovered...
...course of recounting her adventures, Author Christie tells a good deal about Syria, about archaeology, and about herself. Christie fans will find some clues to the origin of various matters in her mystery stories of the period. There is, for example, the gentle cult of the Yezidis, some of whom are hired as diggers. They worship Shaitan (Satan), whom they believe God has placed in charge of the world. No Christie reader will fail to recognize the prototype of Mr. Shaitana, a curiously devilish figure in Christie's Cards on the Table...