Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planned. Several young wives and not a few studious unmarried women had been accepted. About one-third of the passenger list was composed of this year's college freshmen whose parents had considered that their young would make more of a land university after literally seeing the world. Full credit for courses passed awaited the voyagers when they should return to stationary education. Instead of frivolous weekends in large U. S. cities, they would have spent their spare time in trips ashore, under watchful and instructive supervision, to foreign banks, temples, schools, playgrounds, parliaments. All along their course, ministries...
Last week, Bernarr ("Body-Love") Macfadden celebrated the second anniversary of his Evening Graphic, Manhattan's most pornographic sheetlet, with "a frank talk" to his readers. He had previously circulated among his readers a questionnaire. Their response had pleased him. Said he in the full-page advertisement...
...Roman Catholicism of 70 Negroes, including two onetime Protestant ministers; urged them to train their children for priesthood, sisterhood; said: "I earnestly ask all our colored citizens to consider the position of the Catholic church, to study her teachings, to realize that her ceremonials, her processions, her music are full of a profound meaning which, if understood, could not fail to stir the deepest emotion of the colored race...
Followed years of gore and glory, for Mohammed entertained no silly qualms about bloodshed and brigandage for pious ends. He never went in for miracles, but calculated a paradise that Arabs would gladly die for, abundant in food, wine, ease and "full-bosomed" houris. Ignorant in most things (he once forbade the artificial fecundation of date palms, precipitating a famine), he violated Arabian chivalry by employing his brains in war; adopted entrenchment and always watched fights alertly from a safely distant hill. Militarily secure, he accomplished great pilgrimages back to the holy well, Zemzem, at Mecca. Before his death from...
...CRIMSON candidate serves no apprenticeship of disagreeable routine. He has no soiled laundry to count, no water to carry. He starts his competition Wednesday night, and Thursday morning he is a full fledged reporter. The writer, when he had been a candidate for the CRIMSON less than twenty-four hours was interviewing George M. Cohan in his dressing room at a Boston theatre. and, Mr. Cohan had no idea that he wasn't a veteran of many such interviews. Or if he did, he politely made no comment about it. A day or two later came an interview with Senator...