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Word: moored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Broad Arrow of King George.* They did not like their food, they did not like their cells, and they had heard tales of bloody, partly successful prison riots in the U. S. In Exeter and Plymouth, police chiefs were warned to be ready. Householders living on the moor were enrolled as special constables. Early last week Home Secretary Sir Herbert Samuel visited the prison to inspect conditions for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Broad Arrows | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...dawn on Sunday the prison siren hooted across the moor. Convicts had broken into the warden's office and attempted to steal the keys. Every man in Princetown, the little village under the prison walls, was given a rifle and posted near the jail. The central cell block roared up in flames, the clock tower fell. Guards with riot guns stood on ladders and popped at every cropped head that showed above the parapet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Broad Arrows | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Africa two years ago and in Oxford last summer. In Manhattan, The Groups influence emanates from Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church. Their activities?personal evangelism, weekly meetings in the parish house?are led by Rev. Ray Foote Purdy, onetime Princeton Y. M. C. A. secretary, and Calvary's Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., who gave a demonstration of "primitive Christian practice" for the bishops of the 50th-triennial Episcopal convention in Denver last autumn (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Spirit in Geneva | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...example of a man upon whom the land has made a profound impression. No one who has visited the Wessex country can fall to feel the gloom and sadness that clings to the moorland. All of his novels reflect this sombre tone, and in one the moor itself assumes a vigorous personality, becomes a definite character. Today Mr. Hersey will talk in Emerson 211 at 2 o'clock upon the Hardy Country. He has taken many new pictures during the last summer which will enlighten the provincial and refresh the memory of the cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/19/1931 | See Source »

...performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, scenario by Geoffrey Langdon Keynes after the designs of Poet-Artist William Blake, choreography by Dancer Ted Shawn. In eight scenes and an epilog were shown the machinations of Satan (Dancer Shawn) in getting Job (Arthur Moor) to curse God (William Kennedy) for taking from him his family and riches. Though Satan succeeded (as he does not in the Bible story), he was banished by God, driven back to Hell through a gateway which resembled a large dog kennel or a subway entrance. In the epilog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: God in a Stadium | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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