Word: pilgrimate
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...Edgar Douglas Adrian, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who won a Nobel physiology prize for his discovery in 1932. Last week Dr. Adrian reported his progress in this scientific eavesdropping. The messages he has picked up from the brain, he told an audience of distinguished scientists in the second Pilgrim Trust Lecture in Washing ton, have so far been vague and rather crude, but he has heard enough to make him hopeful that some day an electrical listening post will be able to report what, if anything, a brain is thinking...
...screened-box arrangement aft of Cowle, and have reached, after what might be called an exhaustive research, a startling conclusion. From those in the know comes a plausible, if not satisfying, explanation: To wit: Boston is a very cultivated and humane place. Along with Societies for the Continuation of Pilgrim's Day and the Prevention of the Slander of the Irish, is the Greater Society of Greater Boston for the prevention of cruelty to the summer season's flies. For that purpose, it seems, the screened-box arrangement has been originated. Theoretically, it gives the flies a chance...
Behind the case histories of each one of the 4,421 patients at Creedmoor, the 8,634 at Pilgrim, the 7,117 at Central Islip, the 5,855 at Rockland-in the padded violent cells and in the disinfected halls-there are human stories. The ache of ceaseless fear and the agony of ordered purposelessness are ever present in these crowded wards...
...their birthdays together. For St. Andrew's it was a rebirthday. Just a year had passed since the Rev. George William Edwards saved the minuscule mission from folding. For Mr. Edwards it was his 53rd birthday and a milestone in an unusual religious experience, a kind of modern Pilgrim's Progress. Says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloane Coffin: "Mr. Edwards' case is unique...
Around 1870 there appeared at the Brazilian port of Baía a "somber anchorite with hair down to his shoulders, a long tangled beard, an emaciated face, and a piercing eye." He was clad in a blue canvas garment and carried a pilgrim's staff. He was young Antonio Conselheiro. For ten years he had been wandering in the backlands of Brazil (hiding there in shame after his wife had run off with a policeman), eating little or nothing, indifferent to danger, speaking in cryptic, prophetic monosyllables, sleeping in the open, and becoming a terrifying, unforgettable legend...