Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WELLS ALVORD SHERMAN Mr. Davison was born...
...Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment...
Before Columbus discovered America, long before Martin Luther was born, the fire had done its work, which was to burn to death Jan Hus (July 6, 1415). It was not the fire that made Hus a religious hero of Protestantism and a national hero of the country now known as Czecho-Slovakia; but such he became...
...green, when that last putt scuttled out of sight like a round, obedient white mouse, the match ended and out of her eternal preoccupation, Miss Collett smiled vaguely at the shouting multitude. "Her height is 5 feet 5," reporters rushed off to scribble; "she weighs 125 pounds; she was born in New Haven on June 20, 1903; she has no superstitions...
...Omit from the baptism service: "Forasmuch as all men are conceived and born...