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Word: quakers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position, Crowther will be the head line coach under the new Quaker mentor and Director of athletics, George Munger, who was appointed two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCEPTS PENN JOB | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

...narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves, to the 18305 when a St. Louis judge, aptly named Lawless, advised a jury that mob murder was "beyond the reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Oldest of ten children, Isaac was born in Philadelphia in 1827, went to a Quaker school and Haverford College, was apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Benefactor of Science | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical Culture 2 Greek Orthodox 13 Jewish 827 Jewish Reformed 11 Lutheran 87 Methodist and Methodist Episcopal 258 Mormon 24 Mohammedan 3 Presbyterian 456 Protestant 226 Quaker (Friends)28 Unitarian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Atheists at Harvard, But College Worships in 39 Well-Assorted Ways | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

Henry J. Cadbury of the Divinity School, distinguished Quaker and a pacifist, will be moderator, and taking part in the panel discussion on what the United States' far-eastern policy should be will be Sidney B. Fay, professor of History, and Kendric N. Marshall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAK AT WELLESLEY | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

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