Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacob G. Schurman, Minister to China, is on his way home...
Millions throughout the world abstained from work, pleasure, food; worshipped the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob; prepared to celebrate the high holy days of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Shmimi Atzereh; greeted the year 5685. Most of them were in the U. S.-Israelites of the circumcision. They recalled the days when Moses and Aaron and Joshua would say unto the twelve tribes-: "Thus saith the Lord...
...took care of my husband and his stomach; and he lived to be 83." She gave freely to schools and took low-interest mortgages on churches. She herself lived to be 81 and died in 1916. Her daughter married Matthew Astor Wilks, a great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor. Her son, Edward Howland Robinson Green, was born in 1868, in Langham, London, while the Greens were touring abroad. When he was 21, she gave him a million-fearing to give him more lest he marry an actress. As a matter of fact, he did not marry until...
Dauphin, one of the new boats, designed by Gardner, built by Nevins, owned by Hoyt and Tobey, to be sailed by Cornelius Shields of New Rochelle N. Y. Lea, high scorer for the U. S. in the 1922 and 1923 races, designed by Gielow, built by Robert Jacob, owned by J. F. Birmingham of Oyster Bay, to be sailed by Harry L. Maxwell of Glen Cove, L. I. Paumonok, a new boat, designed by Gielow, built by Lawlet, owned by the Seawanhaka Syndicate, to be sailed by Sherman Hoyt of Oyster Bay. Heron, a new boat, designed by Crane, built...
Famine, affecting some 10,000,000 people, was reported by U. S. Minister to China Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman. According to the Minister, the situation was serious: Spring crops were destroyed by drought; Fall crops were destroyed by flood; Winter wheat cannot be saved because of the water which lies like a lake over the land...