Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time it was learned that that Club had won its objective sheets of the season by defeating Yale 1278-1180 in a formally conducted postal match. The winning Crimson team was composed of Captain John G. Penrod '36, Andress, Albert D. Foster, Jr. '36, Howland B. Stoddard '35, and Malcolm S. Watts...
...battle and camp scenes of the Civil War; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President; Stephen Crane, Spanish War correspondent, author (The Red Badge of Courage); President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer...
...last week, hundreds of pious folk began toiling up the icy slopes of Mount Royal to a long, low crypt cut out of the rock of the Côte des Neiges. Many of them brought food, planning to spend the day which was the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of Christ. By nightfall 50,000 pilgrims had crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont. They crossed themselves before a great...
...thing that seems to foster the heavy growth and activity of the bacillus in the mouth is a diet rich in carbohydrates, especially sugar. A high bacillary count, in turn, is almost always found to be associated with a high rate of decay. At the orphanage it was found that caries [decay] could be practically eliminated, except in the over-susceptible group, by the feeding of a uniform, fairly adequate, low sugar diet...
...trouble with educating U. S. immigrants is that after they learn the language some of them begin to think in it. Some even take to writing. And their foster-tongued thoughts are not always flattering to U. S. complacence. Immigrant Louis Adamic, from the Austrian province of Carniola (now part of Yugoslavia), still writes English with a slight accent but he thinks U. S. thoughts with disturbing clarity. How the U. S. looks to foreigners who are trying to become patriated is the subject of his latest book, Grandsons...