Word: pious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many U. S. citizens know that the Delaware Bay region was colonized by Sweden nearly 40 years before the pious arrival of long-haired William Penn. In 1638 Sweden's Mayflower, the Kalmar Nyckel, put colonists ashore at what is now known as The Rocks, near the site of the present city of Wilmington. The settlement, named Christina in honor of Sweden's young queen, scarcely got started before it was lost to the Dutch and then to the English. As the prelude to a tercentenary celebration of New Sweden next year, an exhibition of Swedish art opened...
Green Harvard Chase Springfield Gymnasts out back Hall this afternoon. For Landis sake, how they expect to Folsom with Daughters Nee without Burnett Booth hands. What the Hallet! In Boston pious Pope make big Oakes Foley Downes for such Kevorkians. Me Klein think Springfield get plenty Struck which Cheever team they Gibbs...
...Religion are not being taught as they should be. They are frequently voted by the students to be 'the worst-taught courses in the curriculum.' We must teach fundamental dogmas rather than the frills and accidentals of Religion. . . . There is too much fluffy-ruffle stuff in pious books-entirely too much. I would like to take 90% of the spiritual books written and make a glorious bonfire of them, and their authors too, because they do not tell fundamental truths...
...purification based upon the concept that God was casting up for the year his accounts of the sins and the good work of His children. In Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur over, Jews looked forward to celebrating this week the Hebrew analog to Thanksgiving-the eight-day harvest festival, Succoth, in which good Jews build booths near their homes, deck them with fruits and produce, in memory of the days when Palestinians lived in open...
...society," ruled by no personal ruler but by the impersonal necessities of economic markets in which governments take part only by regulating against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...