Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentlemen," said Father Verdier as he entered, clasping his hands in front of the sash of his soutane, "I scarcely know what to say to you, except that I have never placed my ambition so high as this! I would have greatly preferred to continue my work in the school. However I accept gratefully the orders of the Holy Father, and I will do all in my power to fill this high office worthily...
...rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing bad feeling culminated in August with the Arab anti-Jewish riots in Palestine. Last week Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, Chancellor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, sought to pour more oil on the subsiding waters of Palestine. Said he: ''Palestine can never be a Jewish national home. It will always be an international home for Jews, Christians and Arabs alike." Added Dr. Magnes: Jews must renounce the idea of political domination, should be willing to make Palestine a binational State, a holy land for all nations...
...they have been spreading a general lesson?protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach specifically how to prevent mental and nervous troubles, how to treat and cure developed cases. TIME'S reference to what Yale's President James Rowland Angell said at the mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist. Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles started Yale's mental hygiene work. He is now consultant in mental hygiene in the Department of University Health. Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago likewise...
...begin to fight. There would be terrific pandemonium, and the embers of 1 the camp fire would be scattered and the game forgotten. "The play spirit has endured. . . ." Helen Wills, world's No. 1 lady tennis-player, in the Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said: "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." British censors had snipped out the kisses between her and her British leading man in The Road to Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted President...
There was many another clue. A battered Studebaker car with a Massachusetts license had been seen near Pach's studio. Teasing telegrams arrived at the office of the Yale Daily News. A message from Winter Park, Fla., said that the Fence was being nibbled by alligators. From Niagara Falls came word that the relic had been seen tumbling over the cataract. In Chicago someone was holding "the third rail of the Fence." Other telegrams came from Seattle, Poughkeepsie, Cambridge, Mass. All were signed "Algernon Gustavson...