Word: peat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister Smiddy's large Irish audience must have recalled the vile, unlighted, peat-huts in which some of them were born. Into these, electric light! The old Ireland passes...
...pound class F. R. Sullivan '27 of the University beat R. R. Peat-field '28 of M. I. T. and in the 125-pound class Walter Kwok, the M. I. T. captain won from Aaron Gordon '27. Kwok's onslaught was so terrific in the first minutes that it took Gorden two rounde to recover his poise, but, realizing that his opponent did not out-class him as much as he had appeared to, he fought an even third round...
...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...
...west of Ireland suffered for lack of potatoes (its staple food) for the lack of peat (its staple fuel). The Free State Government rushed aid to the stricken area, fed daily 18,000 persons, distributed much free coal...
...boulder bank glued together by heavy clay, or blasting out a water supply through granite rocks almost under water all the time, or firing in the tiny engine room of a hospital steamer with dusty coal, or cutting down trees and hauling them for firing, or getting peat from a fly-beset bog, or digging roads. They have been working for Labrador in the way Christ worked for the world by doing tough jobs they did not necessarily have to tackle. The changing of the characters of a dozen men, mostly fishermen, in a scattered community like Galilee has without...