Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before the first rays of the sun appeared in the east he was divested of his U. S. bullet-proof waistcoat and led out to meet his death. He presented a strange appearance -this onetime truculent "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). Gone were his Kaiser-like mustachios-he had shaved them off to prevent recognition. His cheeks were sunken and his clothes literally hung on his torso; for in his hunted life in the mountains he had suffered the privations of cold and hunger...
...means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they...
Warning: Inefficient flying schools are graduating men to meet the snowball increase in demand for pilots. Such pilots, seldom hired by reputable airways, must make their living. They fly passengers for cash; their inexperience breeds crashes...
Allison Choate, Yale '26: "You are thrown out against too many people in the delusion that you will thereby meet most of them. That is the source of the indifference...
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., November 18--Vassar tries hard to believe in Harvard's idea of itself as the Compendium of Snobbishness and we do think we do it better than Smith or Wellesley because we are geographically more favorably situated--but it is hard when we never fail to meet its delegates at the Intercollegiate Literary Magazine Conference. They are so lovely to the girls...