Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District Commissioners hoped by ousting kindly Dr. Smith to frighten her pupils into good behavior, they were sadly disappointed. Immediate consequence was the liveliest riot of the year. First the inmates of the school, armed with knives, sticks, milk bottles and baseball bats, surrounded the main building to demand Dr. Smith's return. Three days later, enraged when the staff got eggs and they got hash for breakfast they revolted again, forced the staff to call police to restore order...
...through the wilderness, it moved like an ambling village, its scouts fanned out before it to hunt game and fight off raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through...
...that the main social...
...capable a runner and kicker as he is a passer. In the six games so far this season 53 of Sam Baugh's 109 passes have been completed-for a gain of 707 yd. His running record is almost as impressive. Versatile Sam Baugh is the main reason why the Redskins are now only half a game behind the powerful Giants, why in mid-December they may possibly meet the champions of the Western Division-likely to be the Chicago Bears or the Green Bay Packers-for the National League championship...
...this board are City (men), Hunter (women), Brooklyn and Queens (co-educational). Each in turn is run by a president and an administrative committee of board members. City has a group of Gothic buildings on Washington Heights and a 16-story business school downtown. Hunter is scattered among its main centre at 68th St. and Lexington Ave., a midtown office building and a new campus next to a reservoir at the farthest limits of The Bronx. Brooklyn has just moved out of five rented, jampacked office buildings around Borough Hall. Queens starts in a group of buildings, once a reform...