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Word: quakers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally reporters thought they saw the man that Wallace would like to be. Just outside Oskaloosa, Wallace stopped at small, Quaker-run William Penn College, spoke to its 250 students in the white, high-ceilinged chapel. With the bright Iowa sunlight streaming through the windows, Wallace talked earnestly and simply. Said he: "The guiding principles of the Quaker faith are still the most practical guide to ordinary living." Afterward, he sat under a tree on the lawn, chatted with undergraduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Unhappy Warrior | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Philadelphia will take on a crimson hue the week-end of May 14-16, when alumni from all over the nation converge on the Quaker City for the 1948 meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Banquets, Conant Speech Will Mark Alumni Meeting | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

Dresser said last night that he had been drinking and had lost his way, but denied trying to break in. His own lodgings at the Cambridge Quaker House are just a few doors away from the Frost dwelling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student, Jailed on Burglary Charges, Pleads Inebriation | 4/15/1948 | See Source »

...Christianity and Civilization"; published by the Quaker center, Pendle Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Chariot to Heaven | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Solomon Eagles (or Eccles) was a fanatical 17th Century Quaker who, stripped to the waist and carrying a brazier full of fire & brimstone on his head, walked the streets predicting doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pushover | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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