Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud and vigorous pioneer was William & Mary in the days when its sons were building a new nation. In 1776 it founded Phi Beta Kappa, first Greek letter fraternity. It was the first U. S. college to create Schools of Law (1779), Modern Languages (1779), Political Economy (1784), History...
...members of the Natural History Society of New York he was also one of the pioneer members of the Audubon Society and was instrumental in the popularization of its work and in the widening of its scope having been associated with it since its earliest days. For the last thirty years he had made his home at Yarmouthpert coming to Boston less and less frequently as the years went...
...Aitkin folks by and large very much like the successful actor whose grandfather was one of the founders of the town, whose parents were highly esteemed residents for many years, whose aunt, Marcia Potter Ross, is carrying on the pioneer department store business the grandfather founded here back...
Russia was startled last week by an even more harrowing case of Pioneer peaching. Some months ago in the village of Fadeevka, 14-year-old Pioneer Mischa Dyakov peached on his parents for grain stealing, confidently expected to be the hero of their trial. But so backward was the local Soviet court that both parents were acquitted. Last week their second son,11-year-old Vanya, peached on them not for grain stealing but for murder. "My brother Mischa didn't just disappear after my parents were acquitted. They killed him!" testified the dauntless Pioneer. Resolved to make an example...
Thus advertised the Alaska Line this summer, believing that many a tourist would like to see what few tourists have seen?the grinding, gleaming polar ice pack, which squeezes ships to death in winter, retreats north of the Arctic Circle in summer. For its pioneer cruise the company refitted its 3,868-ton icebreaker Victoria, booked passengers at $250 to $390. Last week, laden to the gunwales with 500 "arm-chair adventurers" and well started on its 7,000-mile, 26-day itinerary, the Victoria sailed from Nome for the dash to the ice pack's fringe. Later the ship...