Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another miner's son, Benjamin Franklin Fairless, last week named as Big Steel's next president (see p. 59). (As they started their talks, Steelman Fairless, recalling that his father, too, had been a union man, said to Laborman Murray: ". . . Call me Ben." In his soft burr, Mr. Murray replied: "Yes, Mr. Fairless...
Vernon H. Struck '38 of Centralia, Illinois, has been awarded the Francis H. Burr Scholarship, the Committee on Scholarships announced today...
...Burr Scholarship, established in 1914 in memory of Francis H. Burr '09, by his friends, is awarded each year to a senior who "combines as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leaderships, scholarship, and athletic ability...
...recipient is selected by the Dean of the College and the Chairman of the Athletic Committee, and receives the gift in his fourth year, together with a copy of the memorial life of Burr...
Before dawn next morning strange Christian soldiers wearing skirts, newly arrived from the United Kingdom, speaking with a thick burr and known as the Black Watch, surrounded Daharieh, ostentatiously showing their weapons. Emboldened by the Black Watch's presence, the disarmed Christian police demanded that the Moslem villagers restore their arms, roughly ordered Moslem women to aid them in searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol...