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  • His career 3-point percentage of 47% is the second-highest in Deacons history and his 212 assists this past season were the third most in school history and the most since Muggsy Bogues in 1987.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • Zodiac, and thirty-six Starry Intelligences whom he called Deacons: while the Holy Spirit [_Sophia Achamoth_], being both the Holy

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • 2010 OUTLOOK: This might be a season of lowered expectations from those viewing the Demon Deacons from the outside, and that's something more in line with the program's history.

    Around the Atlantic Coast Conference 2010

  • However, they ordered the chasuble somewhat different than the Deacons, that is to say in such a manner, that it formed a puff in the front, probably in order to make use of it for touching the sacred vessels and books ...

    Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009

  • Their grassroots organization was known as the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and the deacons represented the only black group in the '60s that armed themselves and fought back in response to white violence.

    Peter Jan Honigsberg: A Legacy Peter Jan Honigsberg 2010

  • Their grassroots organization was known as the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and the deacons represented the only black group in the '60s that armed themselves and fought back in response to white violence.

    Peter Jan Honigsberg: A Legacy Peter Jan Honigsberg 2010

  • Their grassroots organization was known as the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and the deacons represented the only black group in the '60s that armed themselves and fought back in response to white violence.

    Peter Jan Honigsberg: A Legacy Peter Jan Honigsberg 2010

  • The Deacons are the proper persons to pass them; one of the boxes has black and white beans or balls in it, the other empty; the one with the balls in it goes before and furnishes each member with a black and white ball; the empty box follows and receives them.

    The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan

  • Now churches in various parts of the country have accepted their services, and it is the testimony of Henry Ward Beecher that one Deaconess is worth about two ordinary Deacons, which is either saying a good deal for the women or very little for the men.

    Decade Speech: On The Progress Of Education And Industrial Avocations For Women 1870

  • Less than three weeks later, the leaders of a secretive, paramilitary organization of blacks called the Deacons for Defense and Justice visited Bogalusa.

    Kick Him, Honey Ben 2010

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