Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jesus Christ was born of Mary, a Virgin...
...tour from coast to coast, a side trip to Alaska, then another speaking tour across the country in the reverse direction. This last part of the program was abandoned in favor of a return from the Pacific Coast by water-via the Panama Canal, Porto Rico and possibly the Virgin Islands. In high conclave at the White House (John T. Adams, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Secretary Hoover; Postmaster General New; Senator Curtis; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt; the President) the decision was made. The whole trip is still conditioned upon Mrs. Harding's health...
Liberals, like Dr. Fosdick, claim that the agelong experiences of religion remain, but that the interpretation changes with the time. He rejects the biblical ideas of science, and accepts modern conclusions. In a sermon last summer Dr. Fosdick pointed out the many similarities between the story of the Virgin Birth and the stories told of the founders of other religions. This now famous sermon, entitled Shall the Fundamentalists Win? made the conservative Presbyterians of Philadelphia attack Dr. Fosdick's right to preach in the pulpit of the First Church, New York. The Fundamentalists hold that the Bible is proved...
...sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality. The new process is the exclusive property of the U. S. Rubber Co. and fully protected by patents...
...Virgin Islands, lying about 60 miles off the east coast of Porto Rico, were bought by the United States from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000. There are three chief islands in the group, St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and about 50 smaller islands, most of them unnamed and uninhabited. Their combined area is only 132 square miles and their population about...