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The Confraternity appointed 21 Catholic theologians to revise the Douay-Reims Bible. A sample of their work, the Gospel according to St. John, was circulated among last week's Catechetical Congress. Chief innovations: it omits all archaic word forms except thee, thou, thine; does not capitalize the pronouns referring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catechetical Congress | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

PRONOUNS take the place of nouns,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Living Grammar | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

A pronoun, the book explains further, is a "stand-in" for a noun; adjectives are "gossips" that "tell on" nouns and pronouns; a verb is the engine that makes the sentence go. Sentences have stop and go signals: a capital letter at the beginning is a green light; a dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Living Grammar | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Author Stone, himself a smart and self-confident young man, admires the youthful London and all his works for reasons that appear a bit superficial. As critics pointed out when Sailor on Horseback was serialized, some of its best passages are lifted from London's autobiography (John Barleycorn) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strenuous Life | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

"I, Me, My!" King George employed the pronouns "we" "us" and "our" in addressing his Lords and Commons, but King Edward insisted upon "I," "me" and "my" in the Speech from the Throne proroguing Parliament, which was read last week, in the absence of His Majesty, by the Earl of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Crown & State | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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