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...where Mahatma Gandhi gets his funds. The detective spied on Gandhi, reported: "The Mahatma called to him a woman from the crowd, asked what she intended to do with such beautiful pearl earrings. While talking he gently removed them and then auctioned them off. . . . Thus does the Mahatma replenish his cash box, Sahib...
...directed by G. Hinckley Porter '35. The theory behind this drive is that people will be so glad to get rid of their books immediately after taking their examinations that they will gladly present them to the Library representative at the examination place. Books are greatly needed to replenish the waning supply now available at Phillips Brooks, House, since the demand for them has been increasing annually...
...junior leagues, the parents' leagues, the women's clubs and the other groups, so that we shall have the force of widespread concerted public opinion behind our efforts." Immediate plans of the M. P. R. C.: a $2 to $100 per year membership drive to replenish the exhausted Payne Fund; a campaign to end "block booking." To observers familiar with the cinema industry, the M. P. R. C.'s objections to block booking seemed a bad omen. Block booking is the system whereby exhibitors rent pictures in job lots instead of singly. It gives producers an outlet...
Bligh soon proved his mettle. Rigidly keeping to his share of the starvation rations, he did much more than his share of the work, again & again saved them from foundering by skillful seamanship. When they landed at the island of Tofoa to replenish their water and food, the natives soon saw they were helpless and attacked. Only one of their men was lost in the getaway. Thereafter, from fear of savages, they gave many an inviting island a wide berth. As starvation knuckled down on them, mutinous voices muttered, but Bligh always silenced them, kept on. Cannibalism was never even...
...must have the offspring from these families, from which to get our statesmen, and to replenish our cities...