Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...instanced the evolution of the modern Roman Mass out of the Coptic Mass, marked by the conversion of the solid wall of masonry which originally separated the celebrants from the congregation, into a light screen, together with the substitution of the idea of spiritual sacrifice for the actual slaughter of beasts. Furthermore, President Eliot said, the Catholic Church was not estranged from science: this was shown by the recent establishment of the Carney Hospital in Boston. Although this institution has been in operation only a year, it has already surpassed both the Massachusetts and the Boston hospitals in efficiency...
Everybody's--"The Needless Slaughter by Street Cars...