Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not be understood as belittling the efforts of diplomacy in the avoidance of the causes of war-notably the anti-war treaties, which are so great a triumph of the present Federal Administration. Always we may count upon a saving remnant with strong and delicate imagination, moral sensitiveness and spirituality who in times of moral crisis, by their surer instinct, save us if we are to be saved. Let us give them our wholehearted support, but let us be wise in our day and generation and not put our trust in them alone...
...issue of Oct. 8, under the caption "Palestine,'' you indulge in ridicule of what millions of Jews and of sympathetic Christians regard as a custom worthy of respect. It is the religious service observed for centuries by the Jews of Jerusalem at the "Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped, they...
...side of Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, sole remnant of Solomon's Temple, and holiest place in the world of Jewry, several thousand ululating Jews, of both sexes, gathered last week. Separating Jews from Jewesses, as it is ordained, was a large screen. They were celebrating Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement...
...remnant of Third Liberties which the notes were issued to meet was some $970,000,000. Secretary Mellon's dislike of the high-rate situation was reflected in the small amount of the new issue. Only $525,000,000 were authorized, whereas $600,000,000 or more had been confidently predicted by Wall Street. The balance of the Treasury's September bill, which with interest on the public debt will amount to some $1,040,000,000, must be met by September income tax receipts...
...James Farquharson Remnant, Conservative M. P., respected barrister...