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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great of $12,083 was left to the College "to establish a scholarship fund to be known as the Helen H. White scholarship, the income of which is to be used in aid" of needy girls...
...extent of the injuries received in Saturday's game is not yet fully known. Chuck Walsh is definitely out for the rest of the season with a broken leg, which will leave Dike Hyde kicking the extra points; but it is not yet determined just how badly hurt Chief Bender and Don Cass are, and they may see action against Brown...
Died. Herbert Wells Fay, 90, for 27 years custodian of Abraham Lincoln's tomb, known to scholars the world over for his extensive collection of Lincolniana (he had more than a million items); in Springfield...
...child, called Yeshua, is proud to be known as "Mother's boy." Miriam calls him "tinoki" (baby) and dresses him in spotless white linen. She cannot help, as he grows older, setting him apart from his brothers, the sons she bears to Joseph.* When Yeshua begins to sense his Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden...
Graves's tale (based on historical fact) tells how vapid General Mendaña y Castro set sail from Callao, Peru with four ships to take possession of the dimly known Solomons and to convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...