Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the President turned to another power: "The free world believes under one of its religions or another in a divine power . . . Suppose on the next Sabbath day observed by each of our religions, Americans˜165 million people of us-went to our accustomed places of worship and asked for help, and by so doing demonstrated to all the world the sincerity and depth of our aspirations for peace. This would be a mighty force...
Defeated once in the lower courts, Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, managers of Brattle Films Inc., will continue to protest the constitutionality of the Public Safety Commissioner's banning powers. Massachusetts law permits the Commissioner to refuse Sunday licenses to films "inconsistent with the Sabbath's due observance...
...sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams...
...Sabbath rings out grandly on the record, as if tolled by some huge bronze tongue within a spire, and the room fills with a sweet Welsh tumult...
...seat-slamming. Until the clatter had subsided, hymns were almost inaudible. Noisy students were not as riotous as their contemporaries from the town, however. One Sunday afternoon in 1812, a discharged company of Cambridge militia marched triumphantly into the church, "with drum and fife affronting the Sabbath." With measured tramp and fife trilling, they filed into the front galleries, but the congregation studiously ignored them; the long prayer droned on without a break...