Word: wherein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear just wherein lies the advantage of having the groups more wieldy, better organized. There will, perhaps, be more opportunity for the students to mingle with the faculty to have the lamp of truth in the very midst of their lives instead of only on the classroom fringe-for the so-called "inner-college" plan provides professors' rooms in the dormitories. This may prove a valuable stimulus to that class of students inherently brilliant, but also lazy, who would like to know some bother to find them...
Another of the extremely valuable copies in the collection is the first edition of the "Martyrs" of John Foxe, entitled as follows: "Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persocutions and terrible troubles, that have been wrought and practised by the Romishe Prelates, speciallye in this Realme of England and Scotlande, from the yeare of our Lorde a thousande, unto the tyme nowe present." It has the original stamped vellum binding...
...gloomy, chill St. Gile's Cathedral at Edinburgh wherein John Knox had often flayed that Mary who was Queen of Scots, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, last week told 6,000 Scots that Christendom is doomed...
...York City's side of its subway fight and in 1926 he was Alfred Emanuel Smith's ad viser in blocking a private Power deal very similar to the one now effected by the House of Morgan. At present he is investigating for Governor Roosevelt in stances wherein municipalities are sup posed to have paid politicians too dearly for park and building sites...
Rope's End. A malevolent scent pervades the theatre wherein this play is exhibited. Perhaps it really exists. More likely it is imaginary, for the audience observes such diseased events as render the senses unreliable. The play and its players have chilled London for several months with their tale of two Oxford undergraduates (Sebastian Shaw and Ivan Brandt) who divert themselves by strangling a happy classmate and serving dinner on the carven chest which contains his corpse. Among their guests are the father and aunt of the deceased. Also present is Rupert Cadell (Ernest Milton), a cynical, orchidaceous poet...