Word: plurality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Polygamy-or, as the Mormons delicately called it, plural marriage-was not et an acknowledged Mormon practice. Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four...
...case it interests you the word "gimbals" (always plural) is derived from the old French "gemel" meaning a twin, and they may be defined "as two brass rings, which move within each other, each perpendicularly to its plane...
Last week the word was out that the books would have to change their tune, as the result of four years' patient work by bulky, plural-chinned Harold Simmons Booth and his co-workers at Western Reserve University. Early in their experiments it appeared that in boron trifluoride, the boron "accepted electrons" (i. e., was the go-between) in forming compounds with certain other elements. Why not with aristocratic argon...
...polygamists were quick to find defenders. Ever since the Mormon Church bowed to the U. S. and forbade plural marriage in the Manifesto of 1890, the penalty for getting caught is excommunication. Mormon officials still find it necessary to deplore polygamy publicly. But a monthly magazine called Truth, published in Salt Lake City, is a spirited defender of the abandoned practice, bolstered with copious quotations from Mormon law, Mormon writ and the sayings of the founders...
...nigger-in-the-woodpile, says Author Adams, first appeared in August 1619. The woodpile was a Dutch man-o'-war, which unloaded "twenty Negars" at the struggling English colony of Jamestown, Va. But Adams knows too much about history to singularize plural causes. Slavery, says he, was only a contributing factor in the widening divergences between North and South. Even in 1700 the antagonism between Massachusetts and South Carolina, "the two protagonists in our tragedy," was already latent. For the "rope of sand" that held the 13 colonies together was substituted a Constitutional chain of iron, which...