Word: canonizing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...bronze and marble statue of Charles-Michel, Abbé de 1'Epée (1712-89), the man who codified the existing hand signs of his day, invented new ones and created the first intelligible means of communication for the deaf. He was a Roman Catholic priest, canon of the Cathedral of Troyes, son of Louis XIV's architect...
...joined his movement for a National Committee on Mental Hygiene? William Henry Welch, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould Schurman, Julia Clifford Lathrop. Twenty-two years ago this month 14 people, including zealous Mr. Beers, met at the New Haven home of Anson Phelps Stokes. Dr. Stokes now is canon of the Washington Cathedral, engaged in writing History of Universities from Their Origin to the Present Time. In 1908 he was the very active and increasingly powerful secretary of Yale University. With his hospitality Mr. Beers founded the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene, pioneer body, and became its secretary. Next...
...Amazing as it sounds," continued the Canon, "the foundations of St. Pauls [which towers to a height of 365 ft.] are only four and a half feet deep. Beneath the cathedral there is only six feet of earth and then a bed of wet sand twenty feet deep. Springs pass under the cathedral from the northeast to the southwest and keep the sand...
...must have wet sand!" cried Canon Alexander fervently. "We must have wet sand...
...Canon Alexander's opinion this would mean the crumbling end of one of London's tallest, most venerated buildings. He urged that Parliament create the region of St. Paul's a "sacred area" within which all digging and blasting would be perpetually forbidden. First proposed in 1912 the "sacred area" scheme was rejected then by a businessmen's majority of the London City Corporation...