Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter Lillian Luttrell he leaves the fortune, providing she marries Samuel Levi, his associate moneylender. Should she refuse to marry Levi, the fortune goes to Levi. Should he refuse to marry her, the fortune goes to her. Knowing not her father's partner, she was amazed to find him a suave, handsome young Jew, not the portly, oppressive person she pictured. Marriage seemed not impossible. But Samuel loved his cousin Rachel, lovely Semite; Lillian loved Captain Yarborough. The solution of these vexing problems is not in the tawdry fashion of Anne Nichols. Though the play be shot with abortive...
...find the real value of ultraviolet glass and glass substitutes Dr. Janet Howell Clark, 39, associate professor of physiology at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health, measured light all last March, April and May. The discoveries, published last fortnight, were surprising...
...fashionable Berlin cinemaddict, The Homecoming held no particular significance. First-nighters watched the story of two German soldiers imprisoned in Russia during the War, returning to the Vaterland to find vast and disturbing changes. What the average cinemaddict failed to mark was a brief announcement at the picture's opening...
...Geste, survivor, is even the hero of the present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals...
...look upon the Bible as a record of experience. No matter what knocks we receive in life, we find, reading the Bible, that others have received similar knocks. It is a true book of experience...