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...three mile run, which lost much of its glamour when Canadian distance ace Bruce Kidd scratched, provided the best race of the meet. Bob Schul, the favorite in Kidd's absence, led most of the way with Chris Williamson, a 19-year-old Canadian whom Kidd's coach touted as a strong threat, running at his heels. Williamson jumped Schul with about half a mile to go, but he never opened up much of a lead and Schul burst past him with two laps left to win going away...
Tisha b'Av is really the culmination of three weeks of mourning during which yeray shamayim (a pious Jew) does not marry, eat meat, bathe in streams, lakes, seas, cut his hair. On the eve of Tisha b'Av, he goes supperless to schul (synagogue), takes off his shoes, puts on his tefillin (phylacteries-leather arm bands used in prayer) and tkalis (prayer shawl). Then he squats on the floor and in the candlelit synagogue chants the Lamentations of Jeremiah ("How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow...
...university fellowship in Finland and then found out he was expected to give dangerous information." The Finnish police charged that Arvid had been the ring's paymaster and the final link between the spies and the Soviet Legation in Finland. To the ringleader, a Mrs. Marie Louise Schul Martin, the judges gave eight years; to the others sentences ranging from the minimum two years to six years...
...livelihood on the holy Day of Atonement when Jews may do no labor. ¶ In Brooklyn, also, Yom Kippur Eye, 14 scoundrels, instead of attending synagog services, diced for money. Indignant neighbors informed police, who arrested the dicers. In court Yom Kippur, the judge sentenced all 14 to attend schul (synagog...
...Welfare Island (off Manhattan), one Rev. Joseph J. McGowan saw a victim of sleeping sickness, one Amiel Schul, jump into the East River. The priest gave his spectacles to a young man who volunteered to guard them, tore off his overcoat, leaped into the water, saved the life of the gurgitating Schul. On shore, surrounded by congratulators, he looked around for his glasses. They had been stolen...