Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used by Catholics today, a Rosary is a string of beads to which is attached a crucifix. The size and number of the beads remind the faithful, in fingering them, to repeat prayers in "decades" or groups of ten Ave Marias (Hail Marys) preceded by a Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) and followed by a Gloria, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Usually a Catholic says five decades, or a total of some 60 brief prayers, at a time, but the true Rosary consists of 15 decades...
...Gospel." To his bishops the Pope recommends use of the Rosary as a counterattack on the Church's prime bugaboo, Communism. Thus. "As the terrible sect of Albigensians was overcome by the invocation of Mary, so, we hope, shall then be overcome those who, as Communists of today, remind us of them by their craftiness and violence...
...crimson jerseys were issued yesterday and combined with a cold drizzle to remind the Varsity squad that the balmy days of pre-season workouts are now a thing of the past. The New England football and dismal weather season is now in full swing...
...weeks ago Homer Truett Bone, small desiccated senior Senator from Washington, buttonholed his colleagues, one by one, with a grim persistence. He did not have to tell them that his and their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill to finance a National...
Later he was looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. "You know, Vaggy, you're not a bad looking guy. Right now all spruced up like that you remind me of the Yard. Funny, they spend all Spring getting that Yard fixed up for the graduates to see when they come back. Why are the alumni so important at Commencement" Perhaps, it's because they're going to give us some money...