Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increases with heavier trucks, and properly supervised this ordinance would bring the State a great deal of revenue. As it is. you will note that the J. P. made himself $3.15#151;the officer $2.90-the witness (that guy killed me, he never once spoke a word) $1- and the fine was $1. WHAT DOES THE STATE...
...Francisco one day last summer, one Beryle Shinn had a puncture, decided to stop for picnic lunch on a nearby grassy bluff. Mr. Shinn squatted, found himself on a rock, lifted it, saw a dingy piece of metal. He rubbed off the dirt, managed to decipher the word "Drake," took his find to University of California's History Professor Herbert E. Bolton. Last week the historian announced himself satisfied that it was indeed the claim plate posted by Drake 357 years ago. Sold to the California Historical Society for a reputed $2,000, the plaque will be presented...
...What is a Cathedral? It's a chair! That is what the word means. Chairs are like carpets. Most of them are rather settled in one place, but they don't have to be. ... What I want is a chair- a Cathedra-which is not fastened down in one church in one city, but which can travel around to every parish and mission in the diocese. Such a chair is rather useless if it merely provides a place for the bishop to sit. It must be surrounded with other essentials and other people. An altar for worship, books...
...department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain necessary contacts with outsiders, these Cistercians speak no word, communicate their needs to one another in sign language. Like their famed but less ancient brother order, the Trappists, they are vowed to silence, poverty, chastity, obedience. Humbly, courteously they welcome and wait upon visitors, accepting alms from the world-weary well-to-do, or nothing from needy wayfarers...
Tall, sharp-nosed, bespectacled Mrs. Wilks, now 66, found an old will of her brother's in the offices of Green Estates, Inc. at No. 111 Broadway in Manhattan. Drawn in Texas in 1908-nine years before his marriage - the 180-word document left Colonel Green's entire estate to Mother Hetty, or in case of her death, to Sister Hetty." This will Mrs. Wilks filed for probate in the Surrogate Court of Essex County, N. Y. in which Lake Placid is located. Represented by the potent Manhattan law "firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, Sister Hetty said...