Word: requesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elderly virgin] was held in high esteem. These men seized her . . . and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death...
...through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because he would not tell kings or commoners what they wanted to believe, he was imprisoned, hunted as a spy, nearly killed. When Jerusalem was laid waste, his last request -that he be allowed to follow the children of Israel into captivity-was refused, and Jeremiah wandered alone through the burning city, into the desecrated Temple, until he found in the terrible ruin the assurance he could not find in its days of glory...
This test is reprinted in TIME to enable TIME readers to prove their own knowledge of Current Affairs by the same test that was used in hundreds of schools at the end of the last term. Additional copies are available for group programs, on request to TIME'S Chicago office, 330 East 22nd Street...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...