Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before aluminum can be used in place of other materials, in such articles as refrigerators, retooling, new designs, retrain ing of workers, etc., will be necessary which will take time. Also, virgin aluminum is still two to three times as costly as steel. This difficulty may not be serious if second-grade aluminum from scrap -good enough for many common articles -is available at a low price...
...Golden World. Soon Q "set out a quire of virgin folio paper" and, under the influence of Robert Louis Stevenson, wrote his first adventure story (Dead Man's Rock). He also "asked the lady of my affection to be my wife. We had halted . . . beside a low wall coped by a quantity of wild thyme, on a tuft of which I rested a hand as I spoke and waited for her answer. To this day, halting before a tuft of the plant I press it and it recalls that answer in its fragrance." In "the general security of life...
...Sunday morning in 1922, Fosdick delivered a blistering sermon, in which he said: "Just now, the Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin Birth, the literal inspiration of the Scriptures, the belief that Christ will return "upon a heap of blazing clouds." He concluded: "If people must accept these interpretations or get out, then out of the Christian church would go some of the best Christian life and consecration of this generation...
...addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
...moody girl, Gypsy frankly prefers the society of Siamese cats to men. Both devout and practical, she offers up one prayer daily to the Virgin to "keep me pretty" and another to St. Anthony to "pay my bills...