Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Land. Twice as big as Louisiana, and watered by the crocodile-haunted Volta River, the Gold Coast includes: 1) the Crown Colony proper, a strip of steaming forest along the surf-beaten coast; 2) the Kingdom of Ashanti, astride the interior plateau; and 3) the Northern Territories. The North is a sun-baked wasteland, many of whose primitive people live in holes in the ground; their women go naked, with a tuft of leaves before and behind...
...gastronomical decrees emanate from the Dining Hall Kingdom with the proud rolling of drums of last week's board rate decrease. Last September, a decree cancelling the practice of signing off board was slipped onto the books so quietly students hardly noticed. Until, that is, they tried to sign off for post-examination vacations...
...ironed out." After five years, these bugs have unionized, formed shifts, and now buzz from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. each evening in the first level fluorescent lights. The sound has been one of Lamont's distinctive features, a source of pride to the library staff and the insect kingdom...
...Quiet Type. George Humphrey is from the Midwest heartland of coal and ore which supports the kingdom of steel. Since the '20s he has converted Cleve land's M. A. Hanna Co. from a foundering hodgepodge of mines and miscellany into a skillfully integrated corporation with holdings worth $250 million. The M. A. Hanna Co. dominates coal and iron mines, ships, banks, chemical plants, a rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry...
...read it cover to cover 31 times-and his sermons are highly concrete discussions of the Bible's application to daily life. Says he: "We believe that there are things in the Bible that prophesy what is happening today and that tell of the coming of the Kingdom of God . . . God doesn't let the world get caught napping, brother. Look how he warned Noah. He has warned us and it's in the Bible...