Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurled the hatchet downstairs before the deputies grabbed her. In the house Marshal Clark found Mrs. Maxine Sturgis, her daughter by her first husband, no dynamite but a large, menacing supply of jagged stones. Homeless Mrs. Barnett and daughter, still protesting, were bundled off to jail to face the charge of "suspicion" of resisting Federal officers...
...downstairs through the flames. He was seen to offer to lead the way. The three salesgirls took the blankets and followed for a short distance, then their nerves cracked. Although brave Louis Frichet kept pleading with them and trying to hold them back, all three salesgirls finally, rather than face the flames, leaped off the roof to death. Alone with his blanket, the personnel manager began his delayed trip downstairs. It was too late. Not even the bones of Louis Frichet were found...
...these deeds were as nothing to his turning of the face of Turkey from East to West. The abolition of the veil, fez, the institution of polygamy meant the abandonment of the nation's Moslem past. The substitution of civil, criminal and commercial codes of law copied from Western models for the old sheria laws led to the abolition of special privileges for foreigners. The writing of a new language with a new alphabet made literacy a privilege of the masses rather than of priests and intellectuals. Turkey in 1938 is a westernized nation...
Soon he sees her coming down the platform. It is easy to pick her out. No mistaking her for someone's secretary. She looks fresh and eager, with her saucy had and sleek fur coat. He watches her face as it searches the crowd anxiously. The expression is too good to miss. After all, this is a foreign city to her. Then she spies him, and Vag smiles a really happy smile. It has been a long, exam-filled week, but now at long last she stands there in front of him. Smoke swirls around them...
Varsity swimmers face a schedule this year of 14 dual meets and four intersectional and regional championships. The season open December 17 with an unofficial but highly competitive meet against the Alumni, who include Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Cummin, and Berizzi of 1937-38 fame...