Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in her pious life, plump Princess Juliana turned up at a Sunday football game in Amsterdam last week-to show her nervous countrymen how to be calm in a crisis. To show that the crisis was passing, the Army ordered that monthly four-day leaves be resumed after two weeks of complete mobilization...
...Meaty" Cordingley lost to Bob Bingham, 2-1 as "Hunker" Graves was winning from Joe Fall, 4-3. Amherst won the best ball in this foursome. "Pious" Pete Macgowan gave Harvard another point by beating Durkes, 3-1, and Don Peddie finished all even with George Baird. The best ball was also tied. Gerry Davis and Jack McCann were beaten, 3-2 and 5-3 respectively, and Amherst also took this best ball point...
...from resorting to the repressive methods of a more pious age, the guardians of Harvard's dietary welfare have now lent a courteous ear to student complaints. Although demurring to some of the conclusions of the Student Council's Food Report, they have promptly acted on one of its proposals; and an expert has been hired to investigate the alleged inefficiency in the Dining Halls. This is a conciliatory gesture which must be appreciated; but whether it is more than a gesture only the future can show...
...education of Wilbert Lee O'Daniel began after he was elected Governor of Texas. Until November 8, 1938, he was a pious flour salesman and promoter with a baritone voice. He believed that all Governors, State Legislators, Congressmen were great & good men, whose chief concern was the public welfare. He also believed what he read in the papers...
...Manhattan pier, one day last week, 75 cantors chanted. Five hundred rabbis, 500 pious Jewish laymen craned at a stout, full-bearded man in a fur hat debarking from the Swedish liner Drottningholm. From his long wanderings in Eastern Europe's ghettos, great & good Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn at 60 had come to make his home...