Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious newspapers buy from McClure Newspaper Syndicate. First half-dozen articles were typically in the heavy-handed Guinan manner, supporting her insistence that she was writing every word, employing no "ghost." Excerpts: "Well, Cal, they've got me doing it now. . . . We can work together all right. You preach thrift and economy and when your readers have saved all they can, send them to me. I'll take them- and how. Presidents have always been my long suit (not underwear), especially when they are senators. . . . You know the difference between the pessimist and the optimist-the pessimist thinks...
...Sunday morning, at 11 o'clock, Alfred Ernest Stearns, Principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, will preach at a special service for new students in Appleton Chapel...
Into this Midwest oven last week went Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde and Chairman of the Farm Board Alexander Legge to preach the gospel of wheat acreage reduction. Before they left Washington they solemnly warned wheat producers that ahead of them lay seven lean years with "world wheat prices . . . appreciably lower than in the last seven years" (TIME, July 14). Secretary Hyde, comparing himself with Paul Revere, declared: "We are posted as sentries on the lookout towers to see what is coming. We would be derelict in our duty if we didn't warn the farmers...
William Miller, Baptist licentiate, began to preach in 1831 of the Second Advent of The Christ. This was to happen between March 21. 1843, and March 21, 1844. Miscalculation of the Second Coming was the Great Disappointment of Adventists. The date was then advanced first to October 1844, then to some early but indefinite time...
...Plummers Corner, suburb of Auburn. Me., Mrs. Carleton Proctor thought the abandoned Little Methodist Church should be used. She got the key, threw out the church supper dishes, scrubbed the floors, filled the lamps, tidied all things. Then she invited neighbors to hear her preach. During a long sermon she announced: "This is God speaking. He is going to have a clean house here. There are never going to be any more church suppers." The congregation walked...