Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants to know. Is it Monday? Wednesday? Sunday? As close as he ever permits himself to come to impatience, Noah protests against this infernal nagging of him and God over trivial questions. Such inquisitiveness is bound to annoy the Creator. "You can't expect Him to be a saint, you know," he tells his only confidants, the animals...
...Little America, Admiral Byrd blasted a greeting on the Jacob Ruppert's whistle. Five hundred celebrants at Ketchikan, Alaska waded through snowdrifts for a dance. Fun-loving Puerto Ricans decided to regard the occasion as a saint's festival, knocked off for a whole week. Convicts at the Illinois State penitentiary in Joliet had their work day reduced from eight hours...
...Inglis Lecturer for 1935 Samuel S. Drury '01, member of the Board of Overseers, and Rector of Saint Paul's School. Concord, New Hampshire, has chosen "The Care of the Pupil" for the title of the address which he will deliver in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum, at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening...
...English festivities, including the bringing in of the Yule log, the processional bearing of the boar's head, and the baron of beef, are being revived this Christmas and New Year's season at the Chateau Frontenac, on the site of the ancient Fort Saint Louis, in Quebec...
...India's reigning princes at the First India Round Table Conference that they were willing to enter an All-India Federation with the plebeian native states (TIME, Dec. 1, 1930). Two more India Round Table Conferences left up in the air the crux of the whole business: Saint Gandhi's demand for "Dominion Status" (TIME, Jan. 2, 1933). Finally the National Government smothered India's aspiration to rank beside Canada with a revised Federalization program called the White Paper. As the first step toward whipping this into legislative form the Linlithgow Commission was constituted and has performed...