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Word: sabbaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock of a Sunday afternoon, but is perfectly acceptable during the hours between is a particularly knotty theological problem. One might conjecture that the auspices were unfavorable to any other arrangement on the day when this regulation was enacted but there seems little other reason in a suspension of Sabbath for these afternoon hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUNDAY SERVICE | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Unrocked by revolution the northwest corner of Mexico celebrated the Sabbath and St. Patrick's Day with horseracing. The animals raced from mid-morning until after sundown at varying distances for assorted purses and Golden Prince, could he talk, might have told reporters he was the happiest horse in the world. Golden Prince earned $110,000, the largest annual turf stake in the world, by winning the tenth running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Sabbath calm of Cuban politics was suddenly broken last week by a series of loud and alarming reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Assassins! Sharks! | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...borne long and patiently by the students of Harvard, but it remains for feminine wiles to solve the problem of servitude and point to an escape from the rules and regulations attendant upon procuring a higher education. The beautiful Bryn Mawr damsel lounging on her silken pillows until the Sabbath noon, a buttered roll in one hand and a volume of Aristotle in the other is a symbol of emancipation from the monotonous machinery of the modern institution of learning. Not to be outshone, the Wellesley intellectual blows smoke rings in the safety of a Boston and Albany compartment while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEAUTY SLAYS THE BEAST | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

Meanwhile work was being started to remove the chimes presented by Mr. Rockefeller to his Park Avenue Baptist Church from that church's tower. Residents of the expensive apartment neighborhood complain that chimes disturb their Sabbath sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rockefeller Towers | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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