Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...follows: "By church precedent the duty of a Bishop at such times of spontaneous manifestations of faith is to stand aloof, whatever might be his personal opinions, and to give no evidence of approval until such time as events make it clear that the hand of God is at work...
...cures increased in number if not in clarity. One Louis Hanover begged more than $100 from the sympathetic crowd, flung down his crutches on the grave, cried out that he was cured, ran away. The policemen caught him, discovered his alias was Samuel Cohen. He was sent to the work farm for four months. Anna Bellard of Adams, Mass., made out an affidavit at the cemetery office saying she had walked and talked for the first time in five years. Twelve-year-old Rita Averman of Manhattan, blind since infancy, thought she saw light and moving shapes...
...gentlemen," said Father Verdier as he entered, clasping his hands in front of the sash of his soutane, "I scarcely know what to say to you, except that I have never placed my ambition so high as this! I would have greatly preferred to continue my work in the school. However I accept gratefully the orders of the Holy Father, and I will do all in my power to fill this high office worthily...
...only if made possible on the highest ethical plane. The bayonets such as now support the Jewish settlement in Palestine are repugnant to the spirit of Judaism." Upholding Chancellor Magnes were Dr. Hugo Bergmann, fellow-faculty-member, and Felestin, an Arab publication. Said Felestin: "Had the Zionists attempted to work out a plan similar to this and in the same spirit, Palestine would have been a different country from what it is today." Great in Israel has been Judah Leon Magnes. U. S.-born (San Francisco, 1877), he took his Ph.D. in Germany (Heidelberg). Onetime (1905-08) secretary...
...Intemperate or diseased men are not allowed to work on cable repair ships. Secretions ("clamminess") from the pores of their fingers are injurious to the fine wires of a cable...