Word: liberian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home. He kept open house for his students, helped so many with their problems (and their bills) that hundreds of Michigan men and women came to know him as "Uncle Harley"-a typically absent-minded bachelor professor with a penchant for forgetting speaking engagements, a taste for collecting Liberian stamps, and a passion for hosting woodland picnics for the children of the neighborhood...
...Largest cargo ship under any flag: D. K. Ludwig's Sinclair Petrolore (55,000 deadweight tons), with a speed of 15 knots. She flies the Liberian flag...
...William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman's election to a third term. They were all watching a home movie about "Uncle Shad" when Dunbar rushed into the darkened hall, leaped to the stage and fired his .38-caliber six-shooter at President Tubman. His first shot missed, and hit a Liberian Congressman in the leg. The second and third shots rang out as two police inspectors rushed the gunman; both were wounded. By this time the assembled dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening gowns fled, leaving their high-heeled shoes behind. Men broke for the exits, leaving...
...small Liberian steamer Semiramis, chartered by the Red Cross, slipped into her berth in Barcelona's harbor, hundreds of hysterical relatives and friends leaped or shinnied aboard to embrace the returning soldiers...
...Checking over the translation of the Bible in common use in Liberia, Dr. Eugene A. Nida of the American Bible Society discovered a jolting fact. Instead of "Lead us not into temptation" in the Lord's Prayer, a misplaced inflection has long had Liberian Christians praying: "Do not catch us when...