Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nora Waln's Reaching for the Stars would do this majority good. A 43-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, Nora Wain married an Englishman in the service of the Chinese government, went with him to Germany when he resigned to study music. They arrived a few days before the Blood Purge of June 1934, returned to England last April...
...Feslermen are still licking their wounds as a result of the last Yale and Penn games, and they will also enter this evening's fray minus the services of Sophomore guard Bob James who suffered a recurrence of his football injury Wednesday night in the Quaker clash. Coach Loeffler's squad rates as the favorite, but an upset is not at all beyond the realm of possibility. In fact, if the Crimson ever cash in on a few of their shots or do some driving, they may get somewhere...
Robert Hallowell was not a great artist, but he was a natural one. He did vivid, honest water colors and first-rate portraits, including one of Revolutionist John Reed, which now hangs in Harvard's Adams House. Brought up a Quaker, he put his idea of art in three words: "Isolate thy beauty." Widemouthed, humorous, stubborn and good company, he earned praise, honor from museums and meagre keep for his second wife and their baby until Depression hit the art market. From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant on the Federal Art Project. After that obscurity and poverty...
Adding another to their impressive string of victories, the wrestling team returned from Pennsylvania yesterday on the long end of a 17-11 score. The feature of the match was Quaker Captain Bob Allman's bout in which he pinned Captain Harvey Ross of the Crimson...
...Fesler's Varsity hoopmen are due for another tough evening when they move into the Palestra at Philadelphia tonight to tangle with a rapidly improving Quaker quintet. An ordinary Pennsylvania team would be enough to trip the anaemic Feslermen this year, but those Red and Blue cagers are really on the way up to a contending position...