Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's spending money to be rid of his weekly task of writing an English A theme. The youth has been doing exceedingly well in his other courses, but his marks on English A themes have not matched his other course grades. Partly to encourage him and partly to save him the long night hours, which 1, as a freshman theme writer spent grudgingly and fruitlessly, I have tried to help him. At first our united efforts were not successful in lifting his grades much above G. Then it was that I began asking him about the type of themes...
...council chambers as Britain girds its loins to once again resume the "white man's burden." Gouty lords and Cockney navvies, with tongue in ruddy British cheek and sturdy British finger crossed, will cheer King and Empire as the British Army arrives in Addis Ababa to save the black man from himself and to collect the taxes. England will self-sacrificingly exploit the natural resources of the country and grant the natives splendid positions paying as high...
When an oilstove exploded and smoky flames began roaring up through a two-story house in a mean section of Newark, N. J. one afternoon last week, a passing coal truckman named John Wilson knew at once how to save the three Negroes he saw waggling their arms at an upstairs window. Backing his truck up to the house. Driver Wilson geared in the motor to start elevating one end of the body. When it was nearly level with the window, he scrambled up, broke the pane with his shovel. "Hey!" he bellowed, "Jump, jump into the coal...
Three goggle-eyed blackamoors knelt by a bed, swaying and chanting: "Peace, peace, it is truly wonderful, Father. Peace, peace, Father. You will save us, Father. You are God, Father. Father Divine is God, God, God." When they heard the truck driver's voice, one of the Negroes walked to the broken window, firmly drew the shade...
Flavius Josephus, or Joseph ben Matthias, as his fellow-Jews called him, was a queer sort of hero. Feuchtwanger's first volume told how Josephus, after fighting the Romans like an unexceptionable patriot, turned his cloak into a toga to save what he might from the wreck of Judea. Thereafter he never completely got back his countrymen's confidence, never altogether won the Romans' respect. Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled...