Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ninety-four nails were hammered into the coffin of the Harvard Student Union Thursday evening when it was announced that that many had voted to affiliate the organization with its national counterpart, the American Student Union. Since its founding in February the Student Union has had the distinction of containing all Harvard political groups of any consequence, but now it has committed the utter folly of entrusting the determination of its policies to a country-wide organization over which it can have no control whatsoever...
Beneath a perpetually flickering lamp in St. Louis' Temple Israel last week rested a plain coffin. In his pulpit, black-robed Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman intoned three psalms in English, a Kaddish (Jewish mourning prayer) in Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel...
...Japanese Premier who was able by an amazing fluke to attend his own solemn Buddhist funeral and admire the hundreds of wreaths prominent persons had sent to be piled around his coffin was Admiral Keisuke Okada (TIME, March 9). Japanese Army youngsters thought they were killing Premier Okada when they were actually killing his brother-in-law, a Japanese Samurai who bravely pretended to be the Premier...
...issue of TIME there appeared under the heading Great Britain "Rounders & Bounders," the detailed story concerning one Masseur Stoebs, a commoner, and his appearance with the royalty group parading behind the coffin of the late King George...
...team competition; Sargent (H) defeated McMullen 14-8, 15-8, 15-13, 17-15, 18-13; Walsh defeated Donald E. Jackson '37, 13-15, 15-12, 15-6, 15-10; Loft defeated Richard M. Dorson '37, 15-6, 11-6, 15-12, 13-17; Coffin defeated John I. Clark '36, 14-12, 15-16, 15-14; Stack defeated James J. Timehera...