Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pomona's first neighbor college was founded-Scripps College for Women. This will open next autumn. Up and down the Pacific coast go praise and thanksgiving for the woman who gave the money, Miss Ellen B. Scripps of La Jolla, Calif., "most beloved woman in Southern California...
...Story begins in a Kentucky log cabin with one window, one door and a dirt floor. Lying on a pallet of cornhusks and bearskins, on Feb. 12, 1809, a slight, dark, grey-eyed woman with an accented chin and high cheekbones is delivered of a boy baby. A neighbor's kid runs down the road to see. "What you goin' to name him, Nancy?" Nancy Hanks Lincoln says, "Abraham, after his grandfather. . . . Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen...
...announced that the President would contribute an article for a memorial number of the Michiganensian (University of Michigan) to be published next June in honor of the late President Marion LeRoy Burton, friend of the President and onetime neighbor at Northampton, Mass., who nominated him at Cleveland in 1924. ¶Following the passage of an appropriation of $50,000 for the expenses of U. S. delegates to the League of Nations preliminary disarmament conference, the President notified the League Secretariat that the U. S. would participate in the work of the Preparatory Commission, as it is called. Hugh Gibson...
...charwoman, aged 72, took flight, stumbled screaming, fell heavily, lay motionless and silent. The dog lay down beside, where its owner, Olaf Stang, found it on his way home. Fearful lest the dog get chilled, he led it to his hovel, locked it in, before assisting the unconscious woman. Neighbors witnessing, had Olaf arrested "for loving his dog better than his neighbor...
...World, in apologizing for its attack on the House memoirs, bewails the fact that we have not mentioned its interest in aluminum. Like the rest of America, we hardly knew there was an aluminum investigation. Besides, when your neighbor makes himself ridiculous the magnanimous course is surely not to draw attention to the fact...