Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this report the U. S. Minister had "apologized" to the Chinese Nanking Government because during the "Nanking Outrage" two U. S. war vessels fired upon the city. The true facts of the case were not known until last week, when the U. S. State Department released the verbatim text of the MacMurray settlement, which consists of six notes exchanged between the U. S. Minister and Nationalist Foreign Minister Hwang Fu. Therein the U. S. explicitly declares that the firing upon Nanking by the U. S. war vessels Noa and Preston "was in fact a protective barrage, strictly confined...
...Manhattan, last week, oil men awaited the Spanish text of the Calles regulations and prepared to take the advice of highest paid counsel before settling back in the comforting assurance that all is substantially well with oil in Mexico...
...main interest of the story comes when Spike meets his rival, and "the" girl--Louise Brooks. From then on the picture might well be entitled "A Text Book for Pugilistic Aspirants...
Twenty years ago, Pope Pius X commissioned a scholar to head a research into the text of the Vulgate, the 1500-year-old standard Latin version of the Bible. The scholar whom he chose for this task was his Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. Since the Vulgate is the universal biblical authority for all Roman Catholics and since modern discoveries have posed questions against the validity of its sacred interpretations, Cardinal Gasquet's task is one of enormous value as well as gigantic labor. This year the jubilant festival of Easter will wear for Roman Catholics an additional brilliance...
...purpose of Cardinal Gasquet's work is merely to correct as far as possible the errors of text which crept into St. Jerome's careful chapters during the centuries when these were circulated by hand and copied by hasty, sometimes stupid scribes. The Cardinal's method is simple, laborious, exact. He commands a commission of twelve Benedictine monks whose assistants hunt the libraries and collections of Europe, dig and sniff in curious corners, and retrieve for him old manu scripts. By judiciously comparing these, of which some 20,000 have now been gathered, it will be possible...