Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus originated the Book of Mormon and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Vardis Fisher, a descendant of the Mormons, last week made into a brilliant 769-page Harper Prize Novel, Children of God, this story of Mormons and of their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...
CHILDREN OF GOD-Vardis Fisher-Harper...
Popular knowledge of Mormons centres on their practice of "celestial marriage," better known as polygamy. Author Fisher makes it plain that the storm over Mormon polygamy was raised by something less pure than moral indignation...
With country-doctor resourcefulness, Osteopath Fisher gathered a tank of oxygen from the village welding shop, a quart fruit jar from Mrs. Faulkner's kitchen, four pieces of rubber tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function...
...There just wasn't anything else I could do," said 29-year-old Osteopath Fisher to reporters last week. "'Red' and 'Black' will come along all right now, I guess, but even after we had this thing rigged up they nearly died. A couple of times we had to put the tubes clear through their nostrils, directly into their lungs...