Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Confraternity appointed 21 Catholic theologians to revise the Douay-Reims Bible. A sample of their work, the Gospel according to St. John, was circulated among last week's Catechetical Congress. Chief innovations: it omits all archaic word forms except thee, thou, thine; does not capitalize the pronouns referring to Jesus Christ; arranges the text by paragraphs, not by numbered verses. Typical revisions: "desert" for "wilderness" in the passage I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness; "wine" for "vinegar" in the description of the last moments of Christ on the Cross...
...main supply cable of the Commonwealth Edison Company had failed. Due between seven and nine were a dozen planes, 100 passengers. Unable to warn them because the airport's 14 radio transmitters were dead, quick-thinking operations men dashed to ships still on the ground, flashed the word aloft over battery-run airliner radios...
When a Londoner uses the word "Prom" he refers not to a college dance but to an extraordinarily popular series of concerts given every autumn at London's ugly old Queen's Hall. Unlike Covent Garden concerts, the Promenade series are not fashionable. Main reasons for the concerts' popularity are their cheapness, varied programs, unconventional atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur...
Prosecution by the Government, however, was limited to minor charges under the old 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act. Last week, in Eastern District Court of Tennes see, Dr. Massengill pleaded guilty to mislabeling his preparation an elixir (technically the word elixir implies solution of a drug in accepted a fine...
Died. George W. Lederer, 76, "father of the modern musical show," producer of Florodora, manager of Lillian Russell, Marie Dressier, Marie Cahill, David Warfield; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Queens. In the 1890s, when the word "variety" was almost in the same disrepute as "burlesque" later, Lederer introduced the re-spectabilizing word "vaudeville...