Word: manna
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...Harvard's scholarship money didn't fall as manna from heaven," Glimp said. "People left it." He pointed out that Harvard needs a large amount of scholarship funds because it is expensive to attend...
...Right-fid Name offers enough good things to promise better ones. Moreover, during Broadway's flabbiest theater season in years and a week when one play closed after opening night and another should have. Call Me might less be tested for gold than treated as manna...
...hole created by Elizalde's loss has ably filled by John Pringle, an standing student who decided to varsity his first year. His times in school were excellent, and his leap varsity competition should entail difficulty. In this sense, he assembles manna from heaven, and will butterfly and individual medley...
...waiting for: Jerry Kosseff, a glib, messianic promoter from Hollywood. On the speaker's stand Kosseff was a Bible-quoting spellbinder. Recalls one Cabazonian: "Kosseff told us, 'Look around us. This is the Sinai Desert. All we have to do is stretch out our hands and the manna will fall from heaven.' Don't ask me why, but we believed...
...Tallent and Kosseff, the manna-mad citizens of Cabazon soon voted to incorporate their town. The specific purpose of the move was to establish a drive-in draw-poker palace; under California law, only incorporated towns may establish poker parlors. In as Cabazon's mayor went L. D. Tallent-and before long he was also police commissioner, fire commissioner and civil defense commissioner (Kosseff, his usefulness fulfilled, soon sloped back toward Hollywood, later died...