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Next day rain turned rutted clay roads into warm red gumbo. But the Cedar Springs Church of God, to which all the defendants belong, had its biggest turnout in months. Family after family came in by mule and foot, over foot bridge and mountain trail, the man first, his arms full of quilt and baby, next a passel of children, then the woman, carrying the next to youngest. As a kerosene lamp flung shifting shadows on the plain pine walls, the congregation rejoiced, with prayers, a rousing sermon, hymn singing to Defendant McGehee's guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tennessee Trial | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...year he speaks two or three words; at 18 months he speaks ten words and begins to drop baby talk; at two years he knows 300 words; at three he speaks sentences, soliloquizes; at four he asks endless, apparently frivolous questions, makes intentional puns (e.g., "Cedar rabbits" for Cedar Rapids); at five talks succinctly and to the point, asks questions because he really wants to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Baby Behavior | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Roger A. Cunningham, Kent, Ohle; Henry Edelheit, Johnson City, N. Y.; Melvin Fields Jr., Muncie, Ind.; Gabriel Jackson, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Robert A. Keller, Cleveland, Ohio; Wilfred M. Kluss, Southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Murray A. Lambert, Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DETURS ARE GIVEN TO GROUP ONE MEN | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Died. The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, 72, famed, 6' 7" pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's first; congregation: 7,886), known to friends as "Tall Cedar of the Sierras." once famed as Seattle vice-crusader in Klondike days; of pneumonia; in Seattle, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Miss Campbell, who has been at this school seven years, knows her children and their families well. She stops to chat at their houses, is often invited to their parties or to stay overnight. Brought up in Iowa City, where she graduated from high school, she studied at Cedar Falls State Teachers College (Iowa) for a year, then began to teach. She does not smoke or drink. Weekends she has dates with a young Iowa City storekeeper. Because she likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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