Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...
...spent 40-odd years hunting gold. As a $250-a-month prospector (employed by Toronto's Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
Newton's overall conclusion will surprise most churchmen. Said he: the future of religion is as bright in Russia as anywhere in the world. "Religiously, we should regard Russia as our great ally. It is a virgin field for freedom . . . because Russia never knew freedom of religion until the present regime. When the U.S.S.R. was first formed, religion was contraband, but now the Government has discovered that religion cannot be destroyed, so it has invited the church to come in the front door...
...East Kootenays, Slocan and other silver-bearing areas of British Columbia, some 500 old sourdoughs and hopeful young war veterans chipped away last week in search of new lodes. Virgin claims were staked out, old claims rechecked. In Silverton, Sandon and many another mine town, shutters came down and hopes went...
...typical ritual, according to William Seabrook, late, hard-drinking popularizer of the incredible: "Before an altar surmounted by a crucifix turned upside down, and on which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over...