Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tennessee and Mississippi, eastern Missouri and Arkansas, northern and central Louisiana have been flooded. Hardest hit has been Louisiana. Two Louisiana parishes were inundated when the Poydras levee was dynamited; 5,000,000 acres in north Louisiana were under water last week with 4,000,000 more in imminent danger...
...account of life at his English Public School he notes the wisdom of "normality" and the danger of "introspection" in a boy's religion. He frankly owns that "there is more in the habits of formal religion than I used to think--In spite of the fact that Christ was a very silent partner in the life of us boys, he was a very real companion." Charles Kingsley was a kinsman, and "the first person to give me the idea that religion made men efficient." His clinical work in a London Hospital, graphically described, stirred searching questions which cut deep...
...medical training, he was drawn to active interests in, and work for, seamen. It came naturally to him, for his forbears had been "fighting men from Cornwall and Devon", who had "followed the old admirals, from Drake and Howard and Releigh to Rodney, Boscawen and Nelson." The physical danger of the seamen's trade, and their splendid courage, fascinated him. Their helplessness before the "vampires" who prayed on them, was a challenge ringing in his ears. So he discovered his vocation, and in the end, came to find his field and life work along the coast of Labrador, where...
...plot is neither new nor many-sided. Only a writer of M. Maurois' taste and charm could have kept out of all danger of becoming trite or tiresome. Under his pen the story keeps up one's expectant interest although it never becomes absorbing. His chapters often glint with quiet humor as when "Daddy Leroy", and old mill-hand, is perched on a pile of cloth, holding a pistol to his head, and his superiors discuss the pros and cons of suicide with him, while his fellow hands sit by with their fingers in their ears...
...lacrosse team showed its superiority from the start when it defeated the Green. Never during the entire game were the Crimson stick-men in danger. C. O. Simpson '27, playing at first attack accounted for three of the nine goals, playing a brilliant game. One of the Harvard goals came as the result of Esterbrook the Dartmouth goal keeper scooping the ball into...