Word: sinew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does every four years, the brain and sinew of the Protestant communions of the U. S. came all together as the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America ? this year, in Atlanta...
...brain and sinew of the U. S. Protestant communions...
There is a happy ending, deftly provided, that does not matter. What does matter is a novel that presents almost perfectly a tragic, if common, social phenomenon-a novel with guts and sinew under its smooth skin of literary urbanity...
...protection of the authorities. Persecution of the Jew is relatively unknown in China; but they nevertheless keep very much to themselves, most probably because they abhor the Chinamen's pet food, the pig. They are known to the Chinese as "the sect of those who take out the sinew," which refers to their peculiar method of preparing meat in order to make it kosher...
...independent income. It should be made clear, too, that college work is no sinecure. If one goes at it with that idea, or feels himself gravitating towards it as a "sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these things show pretty much pure gold the vein will soon be worked out. There is no eight hour day in teaching; there are no flesh pots. The high importance...