Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been an Ilongote custom for every bridegroom to present his bride with several heads, Christians preferred...
...Most serious to community welfare is the attitude of thousands of parents who dump responsibility of their children's physical, intellectual, civic and moral development almost entirely upon the schools. The community cannot continue its traditional custom of turning these youths loose to shift for themselves through a long summer recess...
Counting first places only (as is the English custom), the meet was a draw, 6 to 6. Counting second and third places, it went to the U. S. team by 61 points...
...Their Eminences William H. O'Connell of Boston, Denis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia, Patrick J. Hayes of New York and the Most Reverend the Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, who left the U. S. to make the quinquennial report of his diocese to the Pontiff, as custom demands...
Officers. The Association had, according to custom, to choose a lady successor to President Newlon. There were two candidates (and rumors of electioneering). Each candidate made a speech. Miss Cornelia S. Adair, grade teacher of Richmond, Va., said she did not see how you could do your duty by your children if you did not take part in community affairs. Miss Mary McSkimmon, principal of Pierce High School, Brookline, Mass., said: "The great opportunity before education today is to apply the new understanding of childhood to teaching." Miss McSkimmon got elected...