Word: adams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They began flaunting their bare skin because "Adam had no clothes before he sinned. We have not sinned." They thrived on arrest, seemed to crave martyrdom. They refused to register homesteads, furnish vital statistics, send children to school, although they had promised to do so when entering Canada and were exempt from military service. They protested by ingrained habit long after oppression disappeared. They could not comprehend that Canada was not Tsardom, redcoated Mounties not Cossacks, census-takers not conscription officers, homestead laws not a landlord's tyranny. All Dukhobor benefactors (including Tolstoy) were soon fed up, regretted having...
...Miller, Jr. '42, Poughkeepsie; Henry W. Munroe '43, New York; Robert G. Nassau '42, Brooklyn; Sol Schnayerson '42, Brooklyn; Alan G. Skelly '43, Brooklyn; Charles C. Smith '41, Port Chester; Richard S. Suter '41, New York; Robert H. Troescher '43, Lynbrook, L.I.; Richard B. Wolf '41, New York; and Adam Yarmolinski '43, New York...
...TREE OF LIBERTY, a best selling novel, is the basis of Hollywood's latest film on the American Revolution: 1. Adam Bede. 2. The Howards of Virginia. 3. Independence Hall. 4. Patrick Henry. 5. The Boston Tea Party...
Operation on the Mind. Schizophrenia, the kind of insanity characterized by withdrawal into a dream world, is the most widespread mental disease in the U. S. In recent years convulsions induced by insulin, metrazol, azoman and electric shock have improved many schizophrenics. Last week Dr. Edward Adam ("Streck") Strecker, a U. of Pa. psychiatric bigwig, described a new brain operation for schizophrenia. It is called pre-frontal leucotomy, involves drilling a small hole in the temple, inserting a narrow, flat-bladed instrument with which a fan-shaped cut is made in the brain lobes...
...parade samples of the new shop's $1,000,000 stock of top-notch gowns, furs, jewels. They bought $30,000 worth -a fine day's business. Mindful of his Hollywood debut two years ago when police had to hold back the crowds and resuscitate fainting women, Adam Gimbel used no initial advertising. Nonetheless, the Detroit papers were kind to him. One reason for that may have been that he had made a deal with the Fisher brothers. His shop is in their New Center Building, close to the General Motors and Fisher office buildings, an area which...