Word: writ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to Holy Writ, more divine effort is expended upon one lost sheep and more joy is attendant upon its recovery than upon ninety and nine in the fold, just so does it become necessary for the organized Church Militant to spend more time and trouble upon one pronounced heretic than upon ninety and nine who may be heretics but who, for one reason or another, have never raised the issue...
...locality was printed, definitely, unmistakably, upon the polo map of the U. S. Besides Long Island, Rumson, N. J., Buffalo, Chicago and possibly Boston and Philadelphia, there is now Los Angeles, writ large...
...Flint buries the treasure sland. As a piece of literature, it falls short of Stevenson's, art. But the tale never lags ; it is bloody enough for the best of us. The Author. A. D. Howden Smith, a special correspondent of the New York Evening. Post till 1921, has writ ten a number of other adventure stories LOSE...
...Holy Writ presents us with the picture of David and Goliath, teaching the relative value of might against right, of physical prowess against spiritual courage. Humanly speaking, it was folly for David to challenge Goliath. But, with God's blessing, the staff, the scrip, the stone and sling of the shepherd boy, symbolic of spiritual power, prevailed signally over the sword, the spear and the shield of the giant warrior, typical of brute force...
...airplane soaring overhead writ silently in the sky over the Capital, "Keep Coolidge," and then, as i make the point doubly strong, writ again "Keep Coolidge." ¶ ThePresident wrote to Mr. and Mrs. James N. Cooke of Morrisville, N. Y.: "My good friend, John A. Stewart, has written to me of your long life together, telling me that you have within a few days celebrated the sixty-fifth anniversary of your marriage. This is a most interesting and impressive record, and I cannot refrain from writing to congratulate both of you, and to extend my earnest hope that...