Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman match will consist entirely of a foils competition Members of the team will be selected from John C. Rowley, Jr., Wallace H. Cox, Nowin G. Davis, John L. Daniels and Verne R. Fulmer...
People of Tennessee are peculiarly an Anglo-Saxon Race, and ranks seven-tenths among the States of the Union in population-rich in agriculture, minerals, etc.; but the wealth of the State does not consist alone of its manufacturing enterprises, richness of its soil, the congeniality of its climate; but rather in the quality of its people...
...monks subscribed to an ancient aphorism: ''Who is once washed in Christ needs not to wash again." Author Choukas learned it was better to drink Mount Athos wine than Mount Athos water, which brings on an abdominal bloat. Medical care on the holy mountain turned out to consist mainly of the use of relics and rat oil.* Eleven of the Athonite monasteries are cenobitic, holding to the strict monastic ideals of early Christendom. The rest are idiorrhythmic-liberal, individualistic and permitting their inmates to own property during their lifetime. All were once wealthy and politically powerful, drawing revenue...
...numbered 140. Last year there were 20 left. Fourteen of them are the personal property of one old man, last of the sailing-ship owners. Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Aland Islands. He makes his fleet pay by carrying no insurance, paying no overhead, allowing no depreciation. The crews consist almost entirely of boy-apprentices, who pay to learn their trade and ''there are always more applicants than vacancies." Two girls signed on for last year's passage, but no women may sail with Captain Villiers again. Said he last week (when he brought the Joseph Conrad...
...Mexico, Florida, Arizona, Utah and North Dakota must provide relief for 20% to 25% of their people. The most fortunate of all Governors, in New Hampshire and Vermont, count more than one out of 20 of their people destitute. Yet the new year's grief for Governors will consist less of the magnitude of unemployment than the lack of means for providing relief...