Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathers, Bates and Chicago, failed to lift the lid from the football stew at Cambridge. But the twice victorious Quaker bruisers have already indicated a capacity to solve the Crimson mystery. They're big, they're seasoned, and they're determined to chalk up their second victory, away from home, in ten years...
...practice yesterday, the A team worked against Penn plays as interpreted by the B eleven, with End Coach Wes Fesler putting on a fair imitation of Frank Reagan, Quaker razmataz artist. Bob James took the part of full-back Tony Chizmadia, while George Downing was Captain Harley Gustafson...
...core of his school, he organized "activities." In the first grade he taught his pupils "The Fatherhood of God" by discussing with them their own families and homes, getting them to build a house, reconstruct Bethlehem and Nazareth (complete with water and sewage systems), erect an altar with Quaker Oats boxes and paper. He also began to teach his first-graders to talk Latin...
...debate was over. Four members-a Quaker, a Pacifist, a Laborite, an independent Laborite-walked out the door that signified they were voting against the measure; 457 members walked out on the Government side. Politically, Great Britain was ready for war. The King put his hand to the measure in the traditional Norman phrase: "Le roy le veult...
...Quakers began hectoring Schenley several years ago. Although it had no intention of yielding its 50-year-old name, a valuable property, the firm agreed gradually to reduce the size of the Old Quaker's picture, to kill him off completely at the first opportunity. To Friends, however, the Old Quaker still looks pretty big and bibulous. Friend Malcolm Read Lovell, authorized by a Manhattan Quaker meeting to study the problem, suggested a boycott-by others. For an effective boycott of a whiskey by teetotaling Quakers was a bit of a problem. Mr. Lovell's solution: to circularize...