Word: origination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parishes. The Assumption is one of six holy days of obligation for U.S. Catholics, on which mass must be attended as on Sunday, under pain of mortal sin. The underlying idea-that the body of Virgin Mary was taken up into Heaven-is universally believed by Catholics. Yet its origin is lost in antiquity. Some say that Mary died at 69, others at 72 or 75. Jerusalem and Ephesus both claimed to have been her death place. How she died is not recorded, but theologians argue (in terms which to them are as exact as mathematics) that because fleshly dissolution...
Commonest belief as to their origin: the descendants of Barbary ponies brought to the Colonies by Sir Walter Raleigh...
...Both the U. S. and British embassies in Berlin started battling with the Foreign Exchange Control Bureau which stubbornly upheld the boycott last week. Hinting at possible U. S. reprisals, Vice President Basil Harris of U. S. Lines declared: "About 83% of the transatlantic trade today is of American origin. Any German policy which would restrict American trade would automatically react to the detriment of Germany. We hope Germany can see her folly before it has harmed her and harmed...
...Australia arrived in Manhattan to begin a U. S. lecture tour. An Englishman chiefly famed as an educator in India, the Bishop is a Freeman of the City of London, a member of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers. His church is neither Liberal nor Catholic, being of Dutch origin and concerned with applying modern thought and occultism to the sacraments...
Some" cosmic impulse of mysterious origin, said Dr. Heim, must be imagined to explain not only the crustal movements, but also fitful accelerations in the rate of earth's rotation and displacements in the position of its axis. Thus he pictured an earth not growing more & more inert, like a snake in the cold, as it consumed its legacy of energy from the sun, but an earth constantly stirred by fresh cosmic im pulses-"although," he added, "the Newton to explain them has not yet come...