Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian Shepherd dogs. It is claimed that they kill sheep, so the Alsatians must go. The mere possibility that they might grow too fond of the dingo, produce offspring combining the intelligence of the Alsatian with the speed and ferocity of the dingo fills sheep growers with alarm...
Three miles off the mainland the Maracaibo anchored. The filibustered loaded their captured arms into the ship's lifeboats and lowered them to the sea, sinking two lifeboats in the process. Capt. Morris and kidnaped Governor Fruytier were left to return to Curaçao or to go anywhere else they pleased. Brash Capt. Urbina attacked the garrison of Vela de Coro, fatally wounded its commander, Gen. Gabriel Lale, and prepared to move forward against Caracas and the formidable ex-Dictator, General Juan Vicente Gomez (TIME...
...judgment to come and punishment for sin. I am not narrow and bigoted, and if the other fellow can get along without these beliefs it is all right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have a belief in the Lord Jesus, the repentance of sin, and the what-shall-I-do-to-be-saved religion. That is the attitude of the real oldtime Southern fundamentalist." To many a liberal delegate the Cannon attitude seemed close to Catholicism, from which...
African savages do not lynch people. Southern white "crackers" do. Psychiatrist A. A. Brill has said: "Anyone taking part in or witnessing a lynching cannot remain a civilized person." Lynching is a handy substitute for the merry-go-round, the theatre, the symphony orchestra and other diversions which "crackers" lack. Author White has enough sense not to present lynch-law as an indictment of civilization below the Mason-Dixon line. Instead he conducts an inquiry which blames, not the whole white Southern civilization itself, but elements thereof...
...amateurs achieve: to prefer a safe four to a perilous three. But Golfer Dawson was troubled less last week by fours than by fives, sixes, and once a seven. Nevertheless during the last nine of the semi-finals he found himself at the 16th three up and three to go against Scot Smith. Then, without losing his cheery tight-lipped smile, he proceeded to lose the next three holes and the extra...