Word: romane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right. Will any pastor say this from his pulpit? Will any bishop put his name to a document commending the practice even to the dwellers of the city slums? Why not? Or will any ordained person avow in public he is himself a contraceptionist? If not, why not? The Roman Catholic church is very explicit in its attitude, and we ought to make our position equally clear...
After briefly dissecting the anatomy of the machine, relating Egyptian, Greek, Roman and early European origins of the machine, and continuing mechanical history from James Watt, steam engine "inventor," to Mr. Televox, Westinghouse machine man, Author Chase gets down to his business...
...Christianity. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii was so well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics and Episcopalians are merged in Hawaii as the Central Union Church...
Luther (Cob-Film). The German producers who made this compressed biography of Protestant Martin Luther had to be careful. They could not make him out an inspired and righteous prophet or Roman Catholics might stay away. They could not, on the other hand, suggest as some theologians have, that Luther was an oversensitive but not overintelligent monk, stimulated by the dirty church politics of his time into a rebellion which became increasingly fanatic as it became increasingly personal. Their real job was to consider that Luther had no reputation one way or the other. If they had shown...
...negligible; but this country consumed (1928) 81,516 tons, or more than half the world's consumption. Tin is used mostly in combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making of tin-plate from which comes...