Word: pilgrimate
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That every pilgrim, with his load...
...Last week it was announced that Donor Harkness intended to give $25,000,000 more to the Pilgrim Trust "for the benefit of Britain...
...wedding procession was to form inside the upper church, march out the west door and up a grassy hill, then round the corner down through the colonnaded, cobblestoned pilgrim's courtyard to the portal of the lower church. Two hundred young girls of Assisi (practically every available one) were named last week "attendants of the Princess," received white satin dresses donated by her. Soldiers, Fascist militia, torch bearers were told off to line...
...Pilgrim Trust is the formal name of the $10,000,000 benefaction which Edward Stephen Harkness, who has given more than $40,000,000 to U. S. philanthropies, created 'for Great Britain last summer. His reasons: The British have endured post-War burdens with fortitude ; the U. S. is rich "and the donor himself has been blessed with worldly means"; his ancestors migrated from Scotland; he admired the British...
...first in America to give full credit to that wonderful runner, A. F. Newton of South Africa. Better late than never. Newton was born within a mile or two of Bedford, England, famous because it was whilst in jail in that town that John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. New to a left England when a youth of 15 to study and take up farming in Rhodesia, South Africa, and as stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years old, yet at 44 and 45 he had smashed to smithereens all former world's records...