Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East-West Football Game was inaugurated about ten years ago by the Shrine organization in San Francisco for the purpose of building up a children's hospital for crippled children...
...game is held on New Year's Day each year and preceding it and during the intermission the uniformed bodies of the Shrines in and around San Francisco and Northern California produce a pageant which is one of the most outstandingly beautiful creations that is produced in the West or in the entire U. S. The football game and the pageant have earned a place in the past ten years that is very enviable. We have no need then for braggadocio or to feel that it is necessary in any way to reflect on the Rose Bowl Game...
...Fathers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary, Father Damien's order, have already set in motion the long, deliberate machinery by which the Roman Catholic Church canonizes saints. So insistent were pious Belgians, so sure that the presence of Father Damien's dust in a proper shrine might work wonders, that King Leopold III personally wrote President Roosevelt last autumn, secured the U. S. Government's help in taking Father Damien back to his native land...
...attitude that Harvard belongs only to those favored men who received their degrees back in the halcyon days of Republicanism, prosperity, and prohibition. They forget in their selfish possessiveness that the college exists for the training of youth and not for the sole purpose of providing a sacred shrine whose keys are possessed by representatives of a past generation...
...Ethiopian troops. Still no attack was made, for in the centre of small Aksum stands a little crenelated stone church, holiest in the empire. There Ethiopia's earliest kings are buried. In it was supposed to lie the true Ark of the Covenant. Before such a Christian shrine Italy dared risk no accident that could be used to breed atrocity stories throughout the Christian world. Day after the official annexation of Aduwa, holy Aksum surrendered without a shot being fired...