Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manila, P. I., is the only electric chair in the Orient. One morning last week it had four occupants in quick succession. All were stalwart brownamoors, members of the traditionally courageous Moro tribe, Mahometans by faith. While robbing a fellow Moro's house 'they had found it necessary to kill the fellow. Accustomed to sharp-edged violence, all four awaited death with proud fortitude, accepting last rites of their faith from Datu Tahil, a Moro Chieftain staying at their prison for inciting a rebellion on Jolo Island. When they saw the chair, three of the condemned men quailed...
Hebrew Union College stands on a little knoll overlooking a park on the outskirts of Cincinnati. It was founded by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in 1875 to train preachers in the Reformed Jewish faith. Tuition is free; the number of students is small (117 this year). Famed graduates are Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...faith of the CRIMSON in the preparatory school newspaper, expressed in both material and editorial form in the past, is vindicated anew in the attainment of the fiftieth year of the Exonian, the newspaper of Phillips Exeter Academy. Although it has not fallen to the lot of the Exonian to win the CRIMSON award during the two years of the newspaper competition for preparatory schools, the separating margin between the Exonian and the winners has in each year been slight...
California, with a primary imminent, was claimed for Candidate Smith ahead of Candidates Walsh and Reed. Here, really, was a crux of the Smith candidacy which its supporters were taking on a surprising amount of faith. The California primary, first direct contest between the leading candidates, is of great importance psychologically as well as numerically. California is farthest from New York. California contains a curious mixture of wet Protestants, dry Catholics and vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted...
...circumstances are that Frank Billings Kellogg has rather cleverly out-maneuvred Aristide Briand at a game of diplomatic chess which has been going on for nine months. M. Briand made the first move in good faith when he proposed to sign a treaty outlawing war simply between France and the U. S. (TIME, July...