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Word: quakers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilgrimage to discover the truth about North and South, Allan meets all the top people. There is "the notorious Levi Coffin of Cincinnati," founder of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves; Allan is armed with a hunting knife for killing abolitionists, but is charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into his eyes and say: "God grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molasses & Manassas | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Some monograph titles under consideration for the coming year are "Taxation as a Police Measure," "The Baptists as an Eighteenth Century Minority," "Quaker Patterns of Benevolence," and "The Debate Over the Bill of Rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom Study Project Begins Full Operation | 11/27/1959 | See Source »

...beast-and it will creep forth to kill again after it recovers from a two-week digestive coma brought on by swallowing Lady Edith's cook. So Lady Edith, who runs an orphanage near Bihar, India, delegates the job of python stalking to a half-Indian, half-American Quaker youth named Peter Bruff. Though courageous, Peter is an abstracted, mystical young man. He is also a poet, and his work, a heroic poem about the god Krishna, is going badly; he has caught the eye of a lustful Tibetan woman, who keeps luring him to her hut. A proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Quaker Oats | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...same time that the varsity is meeting Princeton, Yale will be facing Penn at Philadelphia. It is the Bulldogs' turn to struggle with the problems the Penn field presents to visitors, and they will be up against a vengeful Quaker eleven. Furthermore, Penn captain and center half John Jerbasi should be back in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Face Strong Princeton Team; Title Hopes Hang on Crimson Victory | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...were today--only the supporting cast had changed. The spot was rain-swept Franklin Field, Philadelphia, and a Harvard team, fresh from a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth and in the midst of one of its worst seasons on record, was expected to be easy prey for the Quaker eleven. And the star, just as today, was Boulris...

Author: By F. W. Byron jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Underrated Crimson Eleven Beats Penn | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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