Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rufus Matthew Jones, Quaker member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry S.T.D...
About one-quarter of the Swarthmore students are Quaker. No Quaker himself, President Aydelotte admires Quaker liberalism and forthrightness, seeks to keep its influence alive in his college. Older professors sometimes "thee and thou" their students. Sundays there are "first-day meetings'' in the bare Quaker meeting house. The Swarthmore board of managers opens its sessions silently, does business by taking the ''sense of the meeting." Swarthmore students dress simply, do not gad about Philadelphia as much as students from Haverford and U. of P. The men meet nightly in the ''Cracker Room...
...drum, cymbal, triangle and xylophone, while a teacher accompanied on the piano. The primary pupils furnished a 30-piece orchestra. High school students strutted in the costumes of the past 50 years. Parents looked over exhibits of school work. None was happier than the stout, genial. soft-spoken old Quaker for whom the celebration was held-Thomas Watson Sidwell who founded Friends' School, taught there until ten years ago, is still its principal...
...Fairgoer may order his Chevrolet in the morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases of breakfast food per hour. Only inactive spot will be the airy, peaceful TIME-FORTUNE building, carefully designed as "A Place to Sit Down" and containing the world's biggest rack of current periodicals...
...half million gallons, little over a year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply is 16 and more years old. Wholesale prices quoted last week for cases of 24 pint bottles included: WTood-ford Bourbon $27.50, King Cole Bourbon $35, Old Quaker Bourbon $38.50, Old Quaker Rye $42.50, Golden Wedding $43.50, Gibson $45 to $49-50, and $53-50 for Old Overholt, the good red liquor which, with Andrew William Mellon's aid, helped found the fortune of the late Henry Clay Frick...