Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other provers of the fabulous: Rev Mark L. Voyles of Little Rock, Ark. who can give the chapter and verse number of any scriptural quotation read to him and recite the preceding and succeeding verses; W. W. Pitman of Wharton, Tex. who disarmed a man by shooting a bullet into one of the chambers of his gun; Edward W. Pulick of College Point, N. Y. who was struck by lightning, left uninjured save for singed hair, a burnt straw hat; Robert F. Lancaster of South Whitley, Ind. whose family of 58 has not had a death in 83 years...
Shattuck Scholarships: Peter Fishman, Dorchester, Mass.; Walter Leighton, Jr., Evanston, Ill.; G. C. LeRoy, Auburndale, Mass.; C. A. Niemeyer, Independence, Kan.; R. E. K. Rourke, Brockville, Ont.; F. E. Ulrich, Schenectady, N. Y.; J. E. Whitesell, Eagle Rock, Virginia; Thayer Scholarships: A. I. Abell, Eldorado, Ill.; J. A. Jenkins, Oak Park, Ill.; A. G. Marshak, Woodhaven, L. I., N. Y.; J. C. Miller, Taooma, Wash.; L. A. Wilford, Cambridge, Mass.; Gorham Thomas Scholarship: C. B. Moke, Youngstown, Ohio; Townsend Scholarships: J. M. Pratt, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. F. A. Rick, Jamestown, N. Y.; W. S. Weedon, University, Va.; Nathan Weiner, Roxbury...
Five hundred Texans, starting each day's march with prayer, passed through San Antonio headed for Dallas. Three hundred more Texans left Little Rock, Ark. in style aboard a passenger train, donated by the Missouri Pacific...
...Rock Island box cars were good enough for 500 recruits from the Oklahoma oil fields...
...encyclical on marriage to Pope Pius XI. Lately he bought 30 niblicks to give away. Absentminded, poetic, he forgets his bills (haberdashery accounts totalling $3,160.75 were also judged against him last week). Restored to health after years of invalidism he now spends much time at Piping Rock Club, writing verses which he has privately printed, distributes and reads to his friends. Near Piping Rock is the site of an oldtime Indian trading post which fires Poet Ryan's imagination. One day lately he was observed at this site, a quiet spot in the woods. His yellow Rolls-Royce...