Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House by Chaplains Ze Barney Thome Phillips (right in cut below) and James Shera Montgomery, respectively. House Chaplain Montgomery (Methodist) was less flowery than Senate Chaplain Phillips (Episcopalian). On opening day last week the latter began, "God of our fathers, Fountain of light and love, before whose boundless gaze the seasons roll in majesty and might, and man, Thy miniature divine, was made to walk the earth in joy; incline, at this momentous hour of the newborn year, our thoughts to prayer, our lips to praise...
...incarnate. One was the mighty Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet, master of the Potala fortress, incarnation of the ancestor of all Tibetans, the "Buddha of Mercy." The other was the spiritual ruler, the Panchen Lama, resident at Tashilunpo Monastery eight days distant by caravan, the 'Buddha of Boundless Light." The succession of the Panchen and Dalai Lamas was determined by the Tibetan hierarchy. Upon the death of either Lama his spirit immediately found residence in the body of some small Tibetan moppet, of high family or low. Omens and portents would indicate to priests and monks which child...
...lectures in Botany 2 "make" the course. Professor Weston is a person with that rare gift of being able to make the driest portions of a subject sparkle with interest. Not that the subject matter is uninteresting per so, but Professor Weston's wide experience and boundless enthusiasm do much to make the material especially presentable, even to the most mediocre student...
...lately produced a thick book, compilation of the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1927-29.* Bishop Barnes recalls that at one point in the 19th Century, science seemed about ready to crowd out religion. But science is not yet free of error or boundless in scope. Bishop Barnes travels its length, then looks toward...
...Nationalism is a principle that binds us universally as a Weltanschanung [philosophy]. While we cling with boundless love and faith to our own people, we respect the national rights of other nations out of the same feeling, and it is our heartfelt desire to live with them in peace and friendship. Therefore the idea of 'Germanization' is unknown...