Word: coped
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...asinity! This smoky contradiction implies that we need a bigger navy, but just to satisfy everybody, a sop is thrown peacewards. A big navy-of-course can only lead to peace. But perhaps there are a few people left who are so dense that they can't quite cope with this subtlety...
...latter difficulty has in the past been one of the most serious with which Sir Wilfred and his colleagues have had to cope. He stated that it had often seemed to him unkind "to prolong a life unless we can make it worth while." However, he pointed out that the natives are by nature a very hardy race and added that he had known of only one suicide during his entire experience in Labrador...
...Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, last week candles gleamed, incense rose hazily. Auxiliary Bishop Stephen Joseph Donahue of New York celebrated solemn pontifical mass. In heavy cope and towering mitre, Bishop John Joseph Cantwell of Los Angeles and San Diego approached a wiry, bespectacled prelate, wearing no cope but kneeling with mitre in hand. Over the head of the kneeler Bishop Cantwell slipped a white wool band decorated with black crosses-a pallium. Thus invested with the sacred symbol which signifies that he shares the supreme pastoral power of His Holiness Pius XI, San Francisco's new Archbishop...
...operator's license, in which a bored policeman rides slowly around the block with the candidate, who meets no emergency and performs nothing more difficult than turning around in a dead-end street or backing into a parking space. Laboratory tests would compel the candidate to demonstrate ability to cope with all sorts of situations, would eliminate as factors the strictness or leniency of the examining officer. Finally, Dr. DeSilva urges that laboratory equipment helps beginners learn in safety and provides them with accurate progress reports...
Officially disarmed to a minimum by post-War treaties which they have not yet officially broken, Austria and Hungary teem with assorted illegal armaments, but neither could put in the field forces strong enough to cope with the Little Entente. That job, shrewd Zita thinks, will be taken on by the Great Powers to prevent just such a general war as Dr. Benes envisioned. In snug, smug Habsburg circles last week chances were considered better than good that, if Otto is first proclaimed merely Regent in Vienna, the Great Powers will keep the Little Entente in check, promising...