Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the crusade are still incomplete. Committees are in session; campaigns are being planned. But so much is known: 200 evangelists, picked men, well trained, will go two by two into the dioceses. And before them, to spread the word, will go Bishop Darst...
...sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek for "down in the hollow...
...having the Chief Executive at the Capitol to approve bills without pondering their wisdom. Nevertheless, he set to work with his flourishing big double-C signature. Cabinet members (all except Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were present) and learned Senators were called to his side to give a word or two of hasty advice. Six minor bills (such as "an act to reinstate Joe Burton Coursey in the West Point Military Academy") aroused the President's suspicion, so he decided to take them home. Failure to sign these six within ten days will kill them by "pocket veto...
...sovereign of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship and of Thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way; in the way of those to whom Thou hast been gracious, on whom there is no wrath, and who go not astray. The sixth verse coincides word for word with the 11th line of the 27th Psalm. The religious student notes further the agreement of the ideas here with Jewish and Christian liturgy...
Horse races are run every day; baseball goes perpetually on; of tennis and golf there is no end. How is the sporting journalist to find new words to tell of these things? It is an impossible task, yet, somehow, the better members of the newspaper trade manage it. When they fail, their failure is usually confined to an inside page. But last week, in a two column story about the Yale-Harvard boat-race that began on the front page of the Herald-Tribune, Grantland Rice, star writer (believed to have originated the phrase, "Now the goalposts loomed upon...