Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founder of one of America's oldest Universities will be honored tomorrow afternoon by the town of his birth when the Yale Club of Boston dedicates its new memorial tablet to Elihu Yale. It has been discovered in recent years that Elihu Yale was born in Boston and the tablet in his honor, will be placed on the north side of the Suffolk Bank Building in Scollay Square, a short distance from the site of his birth...
...neat women of the City Club listened with attention. Mrs. Bethune had been introduced to them as the "world's foremost Negro woman educator." They had been told of her life-how she was born in a log cabin on a rice farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with...
...have read the London papers never so carefully last week, he read only half a dozen sentences about the cause célèbre precipitated last week by an 18-year-old girl who was studying to be a typist before she married Charles Spencer Chaplin, born at London in 1889, still a Briton...
...will tell you he was born on the Indian Ocean. At 6, enamored of red circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...
...oldest sport in the history of man, and the first sport a person turns to in his life is track--from the minute one is born until one dies, track is a daily occupation for every man. Not everyone is born with a football under his arm, nor is every man able to pull an oar or bat baseballs out of the yard, but 99 44-100 per cent of the world is born with two legs that were intended for hard usage...