Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report showed that Harris and Romm employed men who were sent to the Harvard Library with lists of books to be pilfered and were paid a small commission for the deed...
...holdings in Pennsylvania was bought by Henry Steinman Snyder, onetime vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. In purchasing Green Pond, near Farmersville, Pa., Mr. Snyder discovered that 3.69-acres of the pond were still owned by the Penns, traced ownership to Miss Stuart, had a copy of the original deed sent...
...your April 20 TIME you published under Animals. "Atrocitv." I was instrumental in setting that incident before the public in that I reported it to the city editor of our Times-Star, an evening newspaper. I endeavored to run down the culprit, or culprits; the deed took place beside the river at Fernbank, but I was not persistent enough in my efforts: I had no success...
...humble and the familiar." Fortuitous though his creation was, Seth Parker has gained a radio following greater even than that of august Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Says the preface to his hymnal: "Seth Parker believes that religion is tangible; that it is a kind word, a thoughtful deed and is not something apart from every day life. He has probably done more to make religion a part of the American home than has any other...
...Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie L. Ide . . . was born out of all reason on Christmas Day . . . that I ... have attained the age when 0, we never mention it, and that I have now no further use for a birthday of any description . . . that I have met H. C. Ide . . . found...