Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election also elevated Charles C. Osborne '52 to Narthex, Charles B. Flood '51 to Ibis, and Peter T. Dixon '51 to Treasurer. Frank E. Baker '51 becomes Business Manager, a post which has been reinstituted...
...turtle now practices nightly under the tutelage of Registrar clerks Shirley Dixon and Lois Bickford, who discovered him in Maine two months ago. The trainers and now at work peeling his paint so he can swim the Channel nude...
Umbashed by this setback, Miss Dixon took the turtle to her West Newton home that night and joined him in the bathtub. "He swam and he swam and he swam," Miss Dixon said, recounting the thrill of the event...
Every year, thousands of light-skinned and straight-haired negroes cross the line. Not the Mason Dixon line but another border of far greater significance--the line which divides white from colored in American society...
...discord among Baptists is something which began back in 1845. In that year, after a missionary society decision to employ no missionaries who owned slaves, the Baptists from the South walked out and formed their own denomination-the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1907 the Baptists north of the Mason-Dixon line united and called themselves the Northern Baptist Convention. Since then, all attempts at uniting the two have failed. At the Southern Baptist Convention's meeting in Oklahoma City last month, some delegates expressed alarm at reports of a forthcoming merger between the Northern Baptists (1,500,000 members...