Word: virgines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because really pious Moslems regard catastrophes fatalistically as "the will of Allah," virtually all the mosques of Islam are uninsured. Last week the Continental Insurance Co. muscled into this virgin insurance field, got on its dotted line potent Moslem signatures for taking out a policy to cover one of Islam's stateliest shrines in Egypt, the mighty Mosque of Mohammed Ali in Cairo...
...even among the second and third generation of the settlers of this virgin land, gave heed to the future results that attended the cutting of the timber which denuded the greater part of the watersheds...
...Machenite Presbyterians soon discovered that church founding has its obstacles. First big one was the ample frame of Moderator George Emerson Barnes of the Philadelphia Presbytery. A onetime University of Montana footballer who subscribes to the 1923 Auburn Affirmation which questions such doctrines as the Virgin Birth, Dr. Barnes is pastor of swank Overbrook Presbyterian Church, a Rotarian and Union Leaguer well versed in church law. When Dr. Machen and his followers began handing resignations to their presbyteries last week, Moderator Barnes promptly called a meeting at which he declared that it was impossible for a Presbyterian minister to resign...
...bill giving the Virgin Islands a measure of home rule, including universal suffrage, a territorial legislature...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, known to Britons of the War generation as Lady Diana Manners, famed for her impersonation of the Virgin Mary in The Miracle...