Word: quakerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Keynoter Jones, a Quaker: "For effective living in a world community, the Negro has the dual advantage of being an American and a person who has pigment in his skin. . . . His identification with members of darker races should be advantageous. For the Negro, the slogan should be 'Go south, east and west...
...forest," murder-haunted and mysterious, and green as shoal water, through which the Indians glided like sharks through reefs. Most of the action in the novel results from Indian troubles intensified by the French-British wars in Europe, the fact that the Bedford garrison was mutinous, and that the Quaker legislature in Philadelphia would not appropriate funds to fight the redskins...
...failure of the Quaker debaters to gain the decision was due largely to their failure to indicate consciousness of the inadequacy of existing facilities...
Gilpin, a rich Quaker's dynamic son, was educated in England, at the University of Pennsylvania and West Point. He was a soldier, lawyer, Indian fighter, editor, land-speculator, explorer (with Freémont), rancher and briefly Governor of the Territory of Colorado. He developed his geopolitical theories in the course of a long, active career helping expand U.S. frontiers...
More Production. A war-hating Quaker, Mr. Boyd did not think of his foams as war materiel until the Army gave him a sizable order. Early in '42 the Navy swamped him with an order for 200,000 gallons, almost a year's production for his small, old-fashioned factory...