Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master had secretly taught him to read and write, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass, became famed as an Abolition orator and editor. As his fame grew, Northern friends who feared he would be returned to Maryland under the Fugitive Slave Law sent him to England to drum up sympathy for his black brothers. Back in the U. S. after the War, Abolitionist Douglass became a potent leader of freed U. S. Negroes. In 1871, President Grant appointed Frederick Douglass Assistant Secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission. President Grant's appointment proved so popular with U. S. Negroes...
...atmospheric pressure in the upper air. With an upper ceiling of 15 to 20 miles, the free balloon reaches much greater heights than weather airplanes. Its readings are transmitted automatically by short wave radio to a receiver on the ground, where the conditions are recorded on a revolving drum...
Anyone who reads the first page of "Listen for a Lonesome Drum" will want to read the whole of it. But it has spoiled for a long time the chances of another author writing a successful book on old York State. Mr. Carmer should have confined himself to a more limited space or done more thorough and more accurate work. As it is, he passes a good many localities rich with the treasure of romance; he disposes of the great Adirondacks with nothing more than an account of some winter lumbering activities, points out that cock-fighting can still...
Miss Doris Garrett, Leonard, Tex., high-school girl, was crowned Queen Onion here June 2 at our Centennial Onion Festival and was featured in a parade of eleven floats and two bands and two drum and bugle corps. Eight thousand people saw her crowned by Congressman Sam Rayburn, Chairman of the Speakers' Bureau, Democratic National Committee...
Hotel Commander--the Drum Grill is unique in its appointments and service. The food is unexcelled...