Word: erma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1945 more than 230 Baltic refugees have come to the U.S. in cockleshells even smaller than the Prolific. The Estonia, which brought Kou Walter and his wife and children to Florida, was only 47 feet long. The Erma, which sailed from Stockholm to Little Creek, Va., charting her course on a standard schoolboys' map of the Atlantic, measured 37 feet...
Dwight P. Griswold, aid-to-Greece chief, and wife Erma each had a collection of slight cuts & bruises after a truck hit their auto in Athens...
This children's crusade was the result of preaching. An English teacher named Mrs. Erma Pixley deeply agreed with irate parents who protested that their children were learning little of manners and less of morals in school. The school superintendent asked Mrs. Pixley to see what she could do. She got out a 112-page booklet explaining her idea: that the intangibles should be taught along with tangibles. Mathematics classes were a good place to talk about precision, accuracy and orderliness; foreign languages, international good will; science, "reverence for the wonders of the universe and humility be fore...
...Estonians from Erma in Norfolk, read your article in last number of TIME [Jan. 7] and we feel our story sympathitically treated, which we appreciate very much. But there were some errors, from which at least one might give the wrong impression of us. Namely: we did not wish to return to a Soviet-Estonia, as the Swedish Government recommanded us. This is why we left Sweden five months ago. But none of us left Estonia after the country "was taken over by Russia." Vice versa, all of us left our native land when it was occupied, entirely or dealwise...
...ERMA'S ESTONIANS IN NORFOLK...