Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Classic in design, the building rose there, squarely blocking the view between the White House and the Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Manhattan's west side as a babe in arms 55 years ago. His father was a cattle dealer. He went to work as a messenger boy, ran errands for prominent men. In those days, to be prominent was to be a politician. Young Curry became a politician, too; rose to be a leader in the Fifth District. He was athletic (hurdles, leaping). He was affable and discreet. He early learned that the foundation of popularity in a crowded community is doing little kindnesses for many people. When he challenged the authority of the Fifth District's aging Boss...
...other foreign capitals operated to deplete seriously the Reichsbank's gold reserve. The only possible counter-move was to raise the rate last week, and in Manhattan it had been anticipated for some weeks that Dr. Schacht would, nay must, take this step.* In Paris, however, angry editors rose above common sense, charged that the lowering of the rate last January was a "plot," even charged that the "Iron Man" would rather see the mark crash down to infinitesimal value a second time?thus bankrupting the Fatherland?than agree to pay the Allies what Germany owes...
...That the devil exists as an actual being? That hell exists as an actual place or location? , That Jesus was born of a virgin without a human father? That Jesus lived a life wholly blameless and without sin or wrongdoing? That after Jesus was dead and buried he actually rose from the dead, having the tomb empty? That there will be one final day of judgment for all who have lived upon earth? Answering ministers and theological students were given a choice of belief, dis belief, uncertainty. Of the ministers, 60% believed in the Devil but only 53% gave...
...present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes of pure intellect, and his wife Ann who reached for realms of pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary types are the horse-faced woman of London society; the young aviator who just misses loving...