Word: serpentes
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...serpent which came to Mr. Hershey's garden some two months ago was John L. Lewis' C. I. O., proffering not knowledge but independence. Within a few weeks most of Hershey's 2,600 employes were enrolled in a United Chocolate Workers' Union, and the company had signed a union agreement. But when the summer slack in the chocolate business began to set in last fortnight, the union charged that the company was violating its agreement to respect seniority, discriminating against unionists in layoffs. One day about half the workers stopped the factory with...
When Jesus Christ first appeared to His assembled disciples after His resurrection, He told them that believers "shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents" (Mark: 16:17, 18). To many a U. S. religionist of the Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" variety, the "gift of tongues" has long been vivid reality. In recent years the taking up of serpents has gained equal favor. Two years ago in Sylva, N. C. a rawboned mountaineer named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three...
...took to wife Portuguese Princess Catherine de Braganza, remain in force. One of these obligations, the Foreign Office gravely announced, is that Britain ''if need be" must go to the aid of Portugal "with a warship carrying at least ten culverins." Culverins were long cannons with peculiar serpent-like adornments much esteemed in the 16th and 17th Centuries...
...British Open was a U. S. monopoly from 1924 to 1934. Last week Gene Sarazen, who won in 1932, borrowed "the brazen serpent," 35-year-old gun-metal putter which Britain's Allan Graham used when he beat Bobby Jones in 1921. Needing 69 to tie, he got 73 on his last round, finished in a tie for fourth place...
...fossils and sea creatures, and never in all that time had he seen anything like the rotting monster he dug out of the sands of Copalis Beach, near Seattle. Neither had any of the people who flocked to inspect it last week. All they could think of was sea serpent. It was eight feet long, weighed about 1,300 Ib. It had a head like a goat's, but much larger; teeth like a dog's; a body which began like a buffalo's and tapered off like a sea lion's, with two four-toed...