Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lynn Harold Hough, when he retired from the ministry of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, attended a dinner given in his honor. At this dinner there were present a rabbi, Leo M. Franklin of Temple Beth-El, and a Roman Catholic priest, the Very Rev. Father John Patrick McNichols, president of the Catholic University of Detroit Father McNichols praised the Methodist preacher in a short speech; then, on behalf of the Catholic institution, he bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws for having displayed "outstanding tolerance...
...Expedition started from Sikkim through Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, Karakorem mountains, Khotan, Kashgar, Qara Shar, Urumchi, Irtysh, Altai Mountains, Oryot region of Mongolia, Central Gobi, Kansu, Tsaidam, Tibet. . . . On Tibetan territory have been attacked by armed robbers. . . . Superiority of our firearms prevented bloodshed. In spite of Tibet passports, expedition forcibly stopped by Tibetan authorities on Oct. 6, two days north of Nagchu. . . . With inhuman cruelty expedition has been detained for five months at altitude of 15,000 feet in Summer tents amidst severe cold, about minus 40 degrees Centigrade...
...small village of Elmwood, Ill., there occurred last week a praiseworthy event. In a park the Girls' Glee Club sang "Illinois" and "America the Beautiful"; many "midwestern pioneers" over the age of 75 and old residents of central Illinois sat cheerfully in a grandstand. Several persons, including famed Sculptor Lorado Taft, made speeches. Then there was unveiled a bronze group statue, The Pioneers, by famed Sculptor Taft...
...Tropical Plant Research Foundation of Washington, which cooperates with the Sugar Club of Cuba, has distributed these Harvard canes to over 30 plantations and experiment stations in Cuba and Central America. The cuttings for these distributions were propagated at the Club's own Experiment Station at Baragua, Cuba, Where they were sent from Soledad...
...Erie runs along that southern shore of Lake Erie, as does the Nickel Plate and the New York Central. Might the I. C C some day "allocate" the Nickel Plate or Erie to the Pennsylvania...