Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college and theological school, start out on a career which has made him the best known of Washington's many Negro preachers. Last month came a proud day for Dr. Brooks when he wrote to Lincoln's white President William Hallock Johnson: "I can never return the favor in mere dollars and cents. . . . But today, for the first time in my life, and I am now more than 83 years of age, I am able to draw a check for $1,000 and have a hundred or two left to my account, only a hundred or two, however...
...minded worker that the Monarchy is an integral part of the existing social system in Britain. Hence the future of the British Monarchy is identical with the future of British capitalism." Mr. Amery, calling the monarchy the perpetual symbol of liberty, says, "the Crown is much more than a mere symbol of unity. It is also a very real constitutional and organic bond of union. . . It is the indivisible unity of a common Crown to which all British subjects stand in the same relation...
...highest type of national service to supply the troops with the materials of defence--at a profit of only six per cent. As for the suggested bonuses: these sums will be donated to the Red Cross or returned to the government in the form of Liberty Loans--at a mere three per cent...
...handsome Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan does not like to think of itself as a mere repository for modern U. S. paintings. From its fat endowment it has bought throughout Depression far more pictures than it needed or could show as the kindest, most practical form of unemployment relief. It gives lectures. It publishes books. It encourages talent. And it is no more democratic than the Italian Government. Founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her good friend Juliana Force, with a board of directors of their own choosing, run the gallery exactly as they see fit. Every other year...
...other feature Joe Brown peddles his way to heroic victory in the six day bike race. The inevitable last shot displays Brown's offspring successfully mouthing a bicycle bell, proving beyond the strength of mere woman's words that the lad is Brown's progeny...