Word: rive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smalltown pastorates, gathered in Washington last week for the Northern Baptist Convention. They gathered to state opinions that were burning within them and to ask questions that had been troubling their reins this long time. And they gathered in pity and fear, for they faced a problem that might rive their church to its foundations...
...contrast what they see here and with what they find at home and elsewhere. The necessary insufficiency of the judgments made, does not render them useless. First impressions will do very well to stimulate thought. And it is rather to be regretted that the customary restraints of courtesy de rive Harvard men of the entirely frank opinion of those who have suggestive comparisons to make. For Harvard hardly pretends to represent perfection in any field; and her guests are usually, in some sort, specialists...
Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
...shall promote efficient secretaries and consuls to vacancies arising in the rank of Minister. If this is done it will give the incentive which is now absent for ambitious men to enter the service with the full realization that successful secreteries or consuls may hope in time to a rive at the important and responsible position of Minister, and later, Ambassador. It will also remove from party politics these places and indirectly eliminate one of those stains which has, for many years, frequently marred our foreign service...