Word: personation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHEREAS, said investigation discloses that no person can be found who knows of, or has even heard of, any cock fights within the boundaries of the City of Wheeling for the past fifteen years, or more...
...during the northern expedition and the war of resistance, the foundation of the republic has been greatly strengthened. The idea of democracy has become a popular sentiment. In these circumstances our party does not need to keep the post and honor of the presidency. . . . We can entrust to a person outside the party the grave responsibility of making the constitution a living thing. Only in this manner shall we rally the support of the people...
Some Kind of Power. Mowatt heals, he thinks, by acting as a medium through which the sick person is able to believe in and accept the healing powers of nature, which can then take over and do the job. On his visit to a patient, he generally talks for a while of these powers and of God, then begins to pray. After praying, he says, he feels "vibrations" building up inside him, and when he touches the sick ones the vibrations pass from his "body into theirs, bringing relief. His work seems especially successful with paralytics and victims of nervous...
Probably the chief reason for this is the increased difficulty among the Faculty and Graduate School of conducting a person-to-person canvass. Six thousand letters have been sent out to faculty members and nonresident graduate students, but something about it makes an impersonal letter far too easy to slip quietly into the nearest wastebasket. Admittedly some of these letters went out late, and admittedly graduate students are on the average poorer per capita than undergraduates. But for the full professors and associate professors, who can certainly afford a reasonable contribution, any excuse is indeed small. The drive includes...
Ideally, an increased effort should be made to contact more graduate students and members of the Faculty in person. Failing this, it is up to these people to acknowledge their part in the W.S.S.F. drive on their own conscience, and to realize that a form letter can carry just as much urgency as the most persuasive door-to-door solicitor...