Word: hells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer would venture into labyrinthine Hell Passage, or attempt to thread the intricacies of Logic Lane. It is the open season for colds and chills, and everyone must take to the fields for games if he wishes to withstand the weather. The fields are a sodden green. Every afternoon hundreds come back from their Rugger games muddier...
...voice strained raw, his fists milling, a Negro evangelist towered above his wailing audience in the little Mount Olive (African Methodist Episcopal) Zion Church at Waterbury, Conn., last week. He rose to his toes and menaced the moaning Negroes with all the horrors of hell. Hysterical cries burst from the listeners: "That's right, preacher! Go on and preach, man! Amen, amen...
...hell can we work...
...There," he said, "you young devil, that will teach you to steal potatoes from the army and sell them to dirty food speculators. You have the red head of an imp from hell and the black heart of a capitalist. We have done with...
...spite of indignant denials, India has been firmly established in the mind of the general reader as a purgatory of child marriages, a hell of sadistic animal torture. Mrs. Beck touches lightly upon these abuses, announces firmly that India has made the greatest spiritual contribution of all time. While the West has been making rapid jerks of progress-materialistic, intellectual, scientific-the East has long since attained a spiritual consummation which -the West cannot forever ignore. Western science has recently discovered evolution in the development of a man's body-Eastern philosophy has always been concerned with evolution...