Word: burrowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, in four small rooms at the rear of the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Mission, middle aged women and young girls congregated to watch the unrelenting minutes burrow into the future. They wore no lace, no ornaments, not even their wedding rings; they painted not, neither did they powder; for, said one: "The gates of Heaven are not open to the gaudy slaves of fashion...
When Harvard bars anyone her students wish to hear, I shall regret my loyalty. J. R. BURROW...