Word: stratas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Millions are invested in this game by reputable businessmen, having millions of patrons drawn from the best strata of society. This representation is so strong in numbers that your reflection on this game practically amounts to a reflection on society in general...
...16th annual conference for the study of sacred prophecy, at Stony Brook, N. Y., last week, illuminated the fact, recently obscured by quarrels between fundamentalists and modernists of the various Christian denominations, that a great and growing strata of Christians now believe literally in the imminent fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. Such belief is the "medicine" of religious charlatans, the persuader of profit-taking evangelists, and the consoler of the regular clergy. Where there is social misery, the religious are apt to keep patient, in hopes of the prophetic millenium. (The non-religious are apt to be impatient, in hopes...
...strata of the continental fault...
Edward of Wales visited a coal mine in Lancashire, donned miner's garb, descended 400 feet, pecked at coal strata with a pneumatic drill, emerged dirty-faced...
This small passenger sat with tight shut eyes as Major di Bernardi gave his ship the "gun," sent it roaring down the field, pulled back his joy stick, took off in a flashing swoop. Then, amid the calm speed of upper air strata, the eyes of passenger Vittorio Mussolini, 11, son of II Duce, opened. Regaining his composure he, later, peeped and peered over the edge of his cockpit, at Italia, far below...