Word: deliverance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fulfillment of this promise finds Thornton transformed into a callous and ugly-tempered bully. Preparations are made for a beating to be administered at Thornton's direction, to a onetime friend of his who "failed to salute the War Dead" and was tattled on by a toady. An officer...
In addition to this surprise package of sacred literature, the profane reading of members was supplied with a heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who...
The question for argumentation is: "Resolved, That F. D. Roosevelt should be re-elected President of the United States." Candidates will be expected to deliver a three-minute speech on either side of the question.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, speaker at the recent Tercentenary Conference, professor of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, and British Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, will remain for a few months as Edward K. Dunham Lecturer at the Medical School, where he will deliver a series of public lectures this...
On Halloween, 1926, mischievous Charles Vance Millar, rich, unmarried Canadian lawyer, silver mine owner and race track gambler, died in Toronto. When his will was examined it was found that he had left $500,000 to that Toronto mother who bore the most children within the next decade. To be...