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Guest. In Braintree, Mass., police stepped up the search for the parents of lost, three-year-old William Kellaway, after a two-hour sojourn at the station house during which William 1) dumped files, 2) decommissioned the Teletype...
Schine's lack of participation in student political activity was part of a general lack of interest in extracurricular groups, the only significant exception being his sojourn in the band...
...world was all vanity and vexation of spirit. He believed that God had wisely implanted in man a "yearning" towards the world-to-come. in which place alone would man find an "eternity of happiness . . . the only perfect happiness." Since, however, man could not escape a period of earthly sojourn, it was up to him to make it as much like Heaven as possible...
...great effort of the Middle Ages failed, largely because of the loss in the spiritual prestige of the papacy during its 14th century sojourn in Avignon. But the struggles it evoked had firmly implanted in Europe a common heritage of religion, law, art, science and leisure. Even in the dark days of the 14th century, as the hoped-for synthesis was fast collapsing, Christian Europe threw up its greatest religious poets-Dante and William Langland, the poor London clerk who wrote Piers Plowman.* Both of them, says Dawson, although on different levels, wrote, convinced "that the world had gone astray...
...Atheneum, started as a private library and art gallery, first opened its doors in Scollay Square in 1807. Sensitive to the rapidly changing character of Scollay, the library stayed only two years, moving to Pearl St. in 1809. After a short sojourn on Pearl St. the Atheneum was driven by the growing clatter of commercial Boston to its present site on Beacon...