Word: analogy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sins and the good work of His children. In Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur over, Jews looked forward to celebrating this week the Hebrew analog to Thanksgiving-the eight-day harvest festival, Succoth, in which good Jews build booths near their homes, deck them with fruits and produce, in memory of the days when Palestinians lived in open huts during their wanderings in the wilderness of Sinai...
...preceded by no oratory, either to praise, defame or nominate a candidate. There were, officially, no candidates. Nonetheless Rt. Rev. Dr. James De Wolf Perry, Bishop of Rhode Island, was elected presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., became thereby the U. S. analog to Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury...