Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the moosemen left, President Hoover received an Elk-Lawrence H. Rupp, Grand Exalted Ruler of that benevolent and protective order. He told the President what the B. P. O. Elks were doing about Unemployment...
...appoints bishops, usually upon the advice of archbishops and bishops. The Pope, unquestioned autocrat, may depose a bishop. In the Church of England the King gingerly functions like the Pope; for extreme cause he, too, may remove a bishop. The Protestant Episcopal Church lacks both Pope and King. Its ruler is a House of Bishops, a senate of sanctified aristocrats elected by priests and laymen. Only the House of Bishops may condemn an erring fellow. Methodists also elect their bishops. But a Methodist bishop's office is executive. He is a superintendent, has no more sanctity than a minister...
More than two thousand years Archimedes, Appolonius of Perga and many another famed Greek geometrician tried to divide an arc into three equal parts with ruler & compass. Three hundred years ago, René Descartes (1650), father of analytic geometry, proved the feat was impossible by means of the Greek instruments...
...mathematicians have solved the problem but only more complicated instruments. Last in Boston, George Hurd, retired manufacturer, and Professor Harold A. Zager, Boston College mathematician, claimed that Descartes was wrong, that after ten years' study they had not only trisected but had divided arcs into other fractions with ruler & compass. They would not describe their method until it is righted...
...Like the Maharaja of Mysore, the Nizam of Hyderabad was prevented from attending the Conference by a tradition that he must never leave India. Ruler of a land larger than New England and almost twice as populous, His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah Sir Usman Ali Khan is thrice a Nizam, a Nawab and a British Hon. Lieut.General...