Word: tracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Bible Students' Association represents a religious phenomenon now about 50 years old. It began with "Pastor" Charles Taze Russell who organized the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society in Pennsylvania to spread his interpretations of the Old & New Testaments. Moving to Manhattan he incorporated the People's Pulpit Association for the same purpose. Later, in London, the International
...Minister" of a "Cabinet" His office is deliberately misnamed "President" to give Irishmen a sense of greater freedom. They, no fools, are prone to remember that the similarly misnamed "Irish Free State" is presided over by His Britannic Majesty's Governor-General, Timothy Michael Healy, author of the tract "Why Ireland Is Not Free...
Chicagoans throbbed with confidence and gratitude towards Mr. Insull when last autumn he acquired an inland tract on the city's grimy river bank and announced that here he would erect a $7,500,000 midwestern music Mecca (TIME, Nov. 29). And last week Chicagoans throbbed again, including even the strictly business-like Journal of Commerce & La Salle Street Journal, when Mr. Insull explained to the 2,500 long-suffering guarantors of the Chicago Civic Opera Co., of which he is president, how this music Mecca could avoid losing money...
...with a certain amount of leisure, spicing the rite with conversation with a kindred spirit. Even a few relevant words from the waiter are not unwelcome. Feeding and dining are both operations that have to do with food. But feeding is just high pressure stoking of the alimentary tract with fuel. "Feeders" resent the time required to do the job, and are hoping that some bright chap will soon boil all food down to a capsule that can be taken on the run, with no time...
...Media, Pa., Bernard C. Black, 84, called "Old Man of the Chimney" because for many years he refused to budge from a burned-down, ramshackle ruin consisting chiefly of a chimney on a $100,000 tract of land owned by him, died, following an apoplectic stroke...