Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adopted resolution on the draft read, "Be it resolved that the HLU opposes the repeal of the Selective Service Act at the present time and reaffirms its opposition to Universal Military Training...
...their way to work, Tokyo citizens read the news, mostly from billboards slapped up around the city by newspapers. To Westerners, their faces showed nothing. The predominant sentiment expressed was "Hotto shita ne"-which, colloquially, means "I'm glad it's all over...
...eyed, hothearted little man of 45, Portinari was hard at work last week on a mural celebrating the life of Tiradentes ("the Tooth-Puller"), a Brazilian dentist who used to carry a copy of the Constitution of the U.S. in his pocket and read it to all who would listen. Tiradentes was hanged and quartered by Portuguese colonial authorities in 1792, and parts of his body were exhibited in the various provinces of Brazil as a bloody lesson...
...morning service in Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary, second-year Student Harold M. Davis, 27, strode to the pulpit. His tie, as bright and many-colored as Joseph's coat, was the one vivid touch in the plain, crowded Victorian chapel. From Acts he read three short passages about Barnabas, "a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost," under whose teaching "the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch...
...Grand Design is one of those books that can be read by itself, as a slow movement of a symphony can be played by itself, but will be best understood by those who know what went on before it. With The Grand Design, Dos Passes returns to a series of novels he began ten years...