Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hull made no threat, but again his language was uncharacteristically strong: "Astonishing theory," "the proposition scarcely requires answer" etc. And his new words, widely read in Mexico, filled Mexicans with indignation and foreboding...
...Voltaire's own statements that he was by no means the cynical atheist he is commonly considered; that he was, in fact, a Deist without quite enough insight to become a full Christian. Voltaire, thought its author, presented an "overwhelming" case for Christianity. The Holy Office, when it read the book last spring, thought otherwise. Its secretary, Donatus Cardinal Sbarretti, wrote Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, that the Holy Office decreed...
Letter from Cardinal Hinsley to the Times: "I have carefully read Mr. Noyes's book, Voltaire, and admire it . . . . I am in a position to say that there has been no condemnation, and certainly not from the Pope. There is question only of some emendments, the nature of which will be discussed later with the author and myself...
...room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy...
...profit number of extra-curricular activities, all of which are worthwhile and a few of which undoubtedly suit your tastes and abilities. If you consider all these things, Freshmen, we are sure that you will pass beneath the gates of Harvard ready--as the words engraven on one read--". . . to grow in wisdom...