Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, Capt. James Cook, British seadog, who had sailed the Pacific from the Antarctic and the South Sea Islands to Alaska, anchored his good ship Resolution in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. There was joy among the natives, for the Great White God and his crew of Demi-Gods had come at last. In the shade of the ohia-lehuas, the priests chewed the meat of coconuts. Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down by the remains...
Both groups, striker and citizen, recognize the danger which hangs over the city. Last week, it loomed menacingly. To New Bedford had come a strike leader of a new type, with different and dangerous ideas. To the history of textile troubles in Passaic, N. J., Albert Weisbord* has contributed many a stormy chapter. And when he advanced on New Bedford to form the Textile Mills Committee, the heads of the old unions were disturbed. Weisbord's ideas were of violence and force, parades and riots. Public sympathy, most surprisingly with the strikers, might well be destroyed by violent methods...
...trench we told him we would halt 100 yards away and wait there twenty-four hours in case he changed his mind and considered himself able to continue. We did this, and when we saw him, on one occasion, lift his head we shouted, 'Come on, Malmgren.' He shook his head, saying, 'Go on.' We continued then without...
...Women's National Health Assn. had asked Dr. Louis Cassidy to talk at their recent meeting in Dublin, and such was his arraignment. He added: "The more you ponder, the more you come to the conclusion that many of the troubles of this country can be directly traced to two facts-there is too much tea and baker's bread consumed and vegetables are hardly thought...
...Great Britain, Canada, the U. S. and other countries built houses there for students. What was needed was a central administration building. Last fortnight, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. contributed $2,000,000 for that purpose. He had looked into University City last summer and Senator d'Honnorat had come to the U. S. last winter to study university methods...