Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dave had done nothing but be born their brother's brothers. But the Parish people wanted more blood. Sheriff Turner guessed the Blackman brothers had better be moved to the Shreveport jail. Three deputies fetched them in a car, one day last week...
...plane flew from California to Hawaii last week. Inhabitants of the U. S. took the news calmly. Four planes had done the trick before. Nine men and one woman had died last year trying...
...alert, kinetic Scripps-Howard newspapers are constantly taking full page space in other news organs to advertise what they have done, not merely told. A recent claim is that defects in the U. S. Air Mail service which had caused the deaths of numerous pilots were remedied after a Scripps reporter had investigated and his chiefs had acted. Last week Scripps-Howard set out upon a bold, bolder, boldest crusade: trying to persuade the U. S. to pay the Civil War Debt to British investor: which was incurred and then repudiated by eight onetime Confederate States...
Harvard Wins. Four weeks after they had laid down their pens for the glory of Harvard and of Yale in English literature (TIME, May 14), the "brain" teams of the two universities heard the verdict. Harvard won, 93 to 117, the scoring being done as in a cross country race (one point for the best examination paper, 20 points for the worst). Two Harvard undergraduates-Nathan M. Pusey of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and James L. McLane of Garrison, Md.-finished first and second. Yale's best, George T. Washington of Detroit, great -grandnephew of Father -of -His -Country George...
Their chief officers chosen, the commissioners of the Assembly proceeded to perilous business. What was to be done about many recent proposals for uniting the Presbyterian Church with other de nominations? The Presbyterians refused to consider amalgamation with such sects as Christian, Universalist and Congregational Churches, because doctrinal differences seemed too extreme to eliminate at this time. To the more consequential proposal which they had received from the Methodist Episcopal Church (TIME, May 21 ), the Presbyterians gave a warmer rejoinder. They elected a committee to confer during the year with a similar Methodist committee to see what could be done...