Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carrie Gloyd married the Rev. David Nation, veteran of the Civil War. In 1901 the Rev. Nation, divorced her on grounds of desertion, cruelty. It had been her custom to sit in the front pew while he was preaching, comment audibly upon his sermon. When she had listened as long as seemed to her sufficient, she would shout out: "That will be about all for today, David!" In 1900 Carrie Nation, began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord...
Bishop Brent is especially well fitted to deliver the address, having been chief of the Chaplin Service with the A. E. F. in France in the years 1918 and 1919. A special invitation to attend these services is extended to the Harvard men who participated in the Civil War, to the Shannon Post of the American Legion, to the Leslie H. Hunting Camp of the United Spanish War Veterans, and to the local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic...
...Douglas Hogg: "Fourthly and finally, the Government considers it axiomatic that the bill must afford protection to Civil servants who must not be intimidated from unswerving loyalty to the State...
...which are open to students entering directly from the secondary schools, are regularly offered in the School, namely: mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mining engineering, sanitary chemistry, and industrial chemistry. In addition, three five-year programs are regularly offered which combine the four-year program in mechanical, or electrical, or civil engineering with studies to the extent of six courses in the Graduate School of Business Administration. About one-seventh of the undergraduates regularly elect the five-year combined programs. Instruction in the departments of metallurgy and sanitary engineering, in so far as degrees are concerned, is now wholly...
Observers recalled that Japanese husbands and wives can divorce each other at any time merely by registering their mutual desire to do so with the civil authorities. Under this system divorces have decreased 50% in Japan during the past 30 years. Only 51,687 divorces were granted last year; 80%, at the instigation of the wife, who, by custom, returns to her family without claiming alimony...