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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Cincinnati, Ohio, Hobo King Jeff Davis and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Reminisced King Jeff: "I was 16 and she was 15. . . . We wrote '18' on two slips of paper and put them in our shoes. Then when the marriage license clerk asked our age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

In Philadelphia, trustees of an estate were refused civic permission to carry out their trust: to erect bronze statues of four Revolutionary War generals in front of Independence Hall. Puzzled, they turned the statues of Generals LaFayette, Montgomery, Pulaski and Steuben over to the Philadelphia Orphans' Court.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

>In the airplane which he pilots over Arctic missionary districts, Rev. Paul Schulte, famed German flying priest, last week soared over Baltimore and Washington, gestured his blessings, sky-wrote the sign of the Cross. Meaning: A "message of peace." His aim: to deliver identical copies of it to each of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bells, Smoke | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

In 1926, what the Church of the Holy Comforter needed, its rector quite frankly decided, was a good, popular tomb. Five years before, the Episcopal diocese of Chicago had been about to abandon the Church of the Holy Comforter (29 members and communicants) when young, handsome, go-getting Rev. Leland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Comforter | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

If jovial, bridge-playing Rector Danforth's church is not yet what he wants it to be, "known all over the world," it is nevertheless of wide repute, not only for its Field relics but for its well-landscaped garden, which the rector tends himself, its 700 historical-religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Comforter | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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