Word: uprightness
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...write in "this solemn hour when it is important to collect all strength for the welfare of the Fatherland," the bishops called for a halt to the "unrestricted antireligious agitation of Star party officers . . . destructive measures against the Church and Christianity. . . . One cannot expect to win hard-working and upright people for Germany and at the same time destroy the happiness of their hearts. . . . One cannot undertake to build a new and fairer Europe and to destroy Christianity at the same time...
...first half the Crimson ruggers had amassed a 6 to 0 advantage. The second period was faster with the Navy showing a bit more strength. However, Scully still managed to dart around their fullbacks for a successful try. Carruthers missed the conversion, the ball hitting the foot of the upright...
Most striking example shown last week was the Carreta de la Muerte-a "death cart" (see cut) in which a grinning skeleton with elongated wooden limbs sits upright with a bow & arrow poised for shooting. The cart was used in the Holy Week ceremonies of the Penitentes, a sect of zealots who flagellated and crucified themselves and each other, and which, although modified in ceremony, still exists in remote regions of New Mexico...
...frightful tree do to a native girl in Madagascar. ". . . Then while her awful screams . . . rose wildly . . . the great leaves slowly rose and stiffly . . . closed about the dead and hampered victim with the silent force of a hydraulic press. . . . The retracted leaves of the great tree kept their upright position during ten days, then when I came one morning they were prone again . . . and nothing [was left] but a white skull at the foot of the tree...
Three years later, the very gentle, scholarly and upright teacher moved to an old summer hotel at Watertown, Conn, and used an abandoned race track as a playing field. Not all the hotel guests had moved out when the school moved in, and boys were sometimes interrupted during study hour by cries for "Three beers and some pretzels to Room...