Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Absent from the Conference were nine ailing bishops, including two Southern die-hards:-Bishops Collins Denny and Warren A. (Coca-Cola family) Candler. A Southern movement to spike the merger with a last-minute court action failed to materialize...
...molecules of protoplasm into positively and negatively charged particles. These ions then recombine to form new chemical substances. In a vain attempt to re-establish osmotic equilibrium in the cell, water from the intercellular spaces flows into the cell through the membrane, causing the cell to swell up and die...
...Lord, we thank Thee for the battleships and bombs, the airplanes and the poison gas. We thank Thee that Thou didst say: Suffer little children to come unto me that I might drop bombs upon them and blow them into Kingdom Come. We thank Thee that Thou didst die upon the Cross, not with a crown of thorns on Thy head, but with a gas mask on Thy face and a soldier's boots upon Thy feet...
...apiece, organized a permanent St. Louis Opera Association, signed up first-magnitude stars, scheduled a short season in the spring, another for fall. Last week, with an advance sale of 18,000 seats, St. Louis' brand-new opera opened its first season with a performance of Die Walküre (starring Lauritz Melchior and Marjorie Lawrence). Said the new company's manager, James E. Darst: "Grand opera cannot fail if St. Louis is really a big league town. And we're betting that...
...Another bad feature of the plan is that some minor sports which are to be made inter-House sports will probably die out because of an insufficient number of players in each House to make up a team. For example lacrosse drew only 60 men at the beginning of the year, enough for a Varsity team, but not enough for eight House teams (there being 10 men to a team). The situation in soccer, fencing, wrestling, and rugby is very similar...