Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Mt. Sinai rooms and in a dozen Quaker households near Manhattan, 24 other young Japanese women were waiting their turn to undergo plastic surgery, some for the second or third time. They all had one thing in common: ten years ago they were on the streets of Hiroshima within a mile of ground zero on the day the first atom bomb was dropped...
Only one Penn runner managed to complete the five mile, rain-spattered course within the top five finishers. Jim Smith of the Quakers came in 23 seconds after the winning Crimson captain, Don French. Smith beat the varsity's Pete Reider by about two steps. Both Ken Wilson and Ralph Perry followed within 20 seconds, before another Quaker harrier was able to make appearance...
Columbia should not present the Crimson with a serious challenge. The Lions last week lost by a large score to Yale and Dartmouth in a triangular meet. Pennsylvania, however, is an unknown factor in today's race, since it is the Quaker's first meet this year...
...outstanding example of an artist thus rescued from oblivion is the Pennsylvania Quaker Edward Hicks (1780-1849), whose primitive allegories (see color page) were unknown even to the leading painters of his own day. Not until 1930, when one of his paintings, Peaceable Kingdom (of which Hicks completed some 80 versions), was found in an antique-dealer's attic, was his name even known. The similarity of his work to Henri Rousseau's and a new appreciation of primitives, quickly placed Hicks as one of the most original of early American artists: the late French Painter Fernand...
...softball league and a sometime newscaster, did not bear down too heavily on salvation between the innings. His talks-mostly about perseverance, hope, kindness-had plenty of light moments. When the microphone caught a ballplayer cursing, Pastor Key pointed up an alternative to swearing with the story of the Quaker lady motorist who squelched a blaspheming truck driver with "When thee gets back to thy kennel, I hope thy mother bites thee...