Word: birminghams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. DOROTHY LOVE COATES, 74, high-spirited gospel singer whose fervid performances and gravelly voice inspired crowds of listeners during the civil rights years; of heart disease; in Birmingham...
...college a corporate sponsor donates 25 cents to fund self-employment loans for poor people around the world (though you can only click twice per day). Although the Ivy League didn’t fare as well as the $3,410.25 (13,641 clicks) raised by national winner Birmingham-Southern College, it didn’t do as badly as, say, the quarter (one click) from Western Michigan University. Due to what the website describes as “the increase in interest in the Click Drive,” a second round is beginning today and continuing through...
...stay at home! And what else do you do?") can be especially hard on women who don't have a long list of work accomplishments behind them. And taking an early break is tougher in some fields than in others. For Susan Stevens, 30, a mother of three in Birmingham, Ala., plans to have children early meant deciding to become a teacher rather than a doctor. "I'd be 30 before I was finished with medical school," she says. (She ended up leaving teaching with the birth of her second child.) Former fashion designer Daisy von Furth, 33, of Northampton...
...everyone in the club is backing Reich, however. Firestone said he supports Thomas F. Birmingham ’72, who is president of the State Senate. Firestone called Birmingham an effective leader, a strong advocate for working people and a candidate who has shown his dedication to Massachusetts...
...Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe presents a vivid and telling portrait of Birmingham, England in the 1970s. Focusing primarily on the adolescent Benjamin Trotter, whom his schoolmates jokingly call Bent Rotter—from the British slang for homosexual—the book tackles the standard issues of English high school, such as dealings with the opposite sex, parents, bullies, peers and, of course, the tribulations of wearing a uniform. But it also breaches the deeper problems of labor relations and unions, race relations, music, extra-marital affairs, the aftermath of World War II, religion, meaningless...