Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...queried a newsgatherer, "Who is your husband, Miss Pankhurst...
...swam the Strait of Gibraltar," said Miss Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer. She added that it took her twelve hours and three-quarters to get across. "What proof have you got, Miss Gleitz?" The swimmer showed a deposition signed by 60 Moroccans who said they saw her land or start or who went with her in little boats. Miss Gleitz said she knew one Englishman had seen her do it. He was a young boy. She described him, but he couldn't be found. Last year Miss Gleitz said she had swum the English Channel but refused...
...three months, in the gold rush of '49, George Gordon Gardner toiled his way across the continent. Last week his granddaughter, Miss Sue Hill, flew from Piedmont, Calif., to New Brunswick, N. J., in a mail plane, completing the trip in 34 hours' flying...
...Miss Helen Kem, dean of Ehwa Women's College in Korea, lamented the fact that, in her country, women were regarded only as the "instruments...
...Miss Pao Tselg, a descendant of famed Philosopher Tsing and the founder of a school for well-bred Chinese girls, observed that Confucius in all his teachings mentioned women only twice. She quoted his maxim: "It is very difficult to keep company with women or with small-minded men." And she recalled his reply to King Wu, when this worthy had mentioned the aid, which he received in ruling, from a council of 10 persons: ". . . There are only 9, for 1 is a woman...