Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabies in its early stages is difficult. The rabid dog is infectious a week before any symptoms appear. As its illness (always fatal to the dog) comes on, it will first seem melancholy, extra affectionate, sexually excited, or uneasy and inclined to seek solitude. It is apt to gather up straw, thread, bits of wood and trash. It will lick cold objects and other animals, but not be disposed to bite. There is no dread of water at any time. "Hydro-phobia" is a misnomer. The dog will drink as long as it can, until constriction of the throat sets...
...give its constituent worshippers voice on moral (not theological) questions. With altering lay attitudes on social questions the Federal Council has tried to keep pace. Whether it has outrun the minds of its constituency will be apparent this week, when some 400 clergymen and laymen representing 26 denominations gather in Indianapolis for the Sixth Quadrennial Meeting of the Federal Council. Ready for the delegates' perusal are voluminous reports by many a committee, on such innocuous matters as goodwill, race relations, broadcasting, finance, education, etc. etc. But large questions loom. Has the Federal Council been too liberal in its talk...
Students protesting against the closing of Widener Library in the evening will gather at 12.30 o'clock tomorrow in the Peabody Room of the Phillips Brooks House in a final endeavor to bring about a change in the attitude of officials on the Library question...
...where they had kept three leased telephone wires busy to Chicago and Los Angeles, entrained for Chicago headquarters to meet Mr. Cord, who had been in California. But whatever the truce meant to the principals, it meant nothing to Mr. Trumbull, who announced that his committee would continue to gather proxies...
...Though she never got to Easy Street she was soon a familiar figure on Bigwig Boulevard. Some of her friends: the late Poet Sterling, the late Jack London, Herbert Hoover, the late great Theodore Roosevelt, May Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, the late Amy Lowell, Diego Rivera, Emma Goldman, Willa Gather...