Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This past year the library has been enlarged greatly and now it has a well rounded collection which it offers to the student body. Part of the Phillips Brooks House budget was devoted to buying copies of text books which were in great demand. A special section of the library...
Sister Annunziata, a d'Orobelli without beauty or dot, had long since been hidden in a convent where she devoted her life to the adoration of Saint Francis and the service of the poor. It was in laying out the ravishing body of poor Miss Annie Spragg that she...
Father d'Astier was this intelligent pragmatist, who never would have bothered to explain but for his exasperation that the stupid dolt was his son (illegitimate of course). He himself, suave, charming, had devoted his career to the greater need of the Church, and converted to Catholicism the rich...
Author Warshow's book is a faithful ledger of the men and properties Jay Gould bought, and those he sold. It achieves a triumphant balance. It is a record of almost unbroken success. A vast speculator, Jay Gould consistently preserved and increased his fortune, died the richest man of...
Andrew Jackson loved cockfighting, horse-racing, apple-toddies; but he worshipped womanhood, honor, democracy; and devoted his life to defending these three. This buckskinned Tennessee pioneer worshipped the epitome of exquisite womanhood in Mrs. Rachel Robards, victim of her husband's jealous bullying. He championed her in her plight...