Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing a long passing game during the first 20 minutes of play, the Crimson's was an impressive attack, but a Quaker spurt in the closing minutes left the Fishermen trailing 22-13 at the half...
...Crimson had a great advantage over the Red and Blue outfit at the center post. Bill Gray, towering over the Quaker pivot-man, won the jump with clock-like regularity while he was in action. During the time he spent on the bench John Herrick carried on just as effectively...
ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...
Kurtz represented a Quaker State district in the lower House at Washington for 12 years, retiring two years ago to devote himself to his law practice. He is widely known as one of the best trial lawyers in the state, and is a former District Attorney. During the war he was chairman of the committee on Public Safety and Counsel of Defense...
Scientific societies of eight countries have honored him. Last year the late King George V knighted this Quaker whose conscientious scruples kept him from active fighting...