Word: severn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never Dies is a sad and solemn novel about India Severn, a spinster U.S. missionary in Siam who cannot rid herself of the conviction that God's work matters more than mission budgets, and who acts accordingly. While her fellow workers trim their efforts to the capacity of the church purse, India packs her mission house with street arabs, a fast-stepping floozy and other unfashionable outcasts. So, while neighboring missions gleam with the spick & span look of good work efficiently done, India's Jasmine Hall assumes more & more the look of a flophouse. When economizing U.S. mission...
Died. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (Stanley Baldwin), 80, thrice Prime Minister of Great Britain; in Stourport-on-Severn (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Isles, at hurricane force in many areas. Fallen trees blocked many main roads. Bomb ruins crashed into bomb-weakened houses, and rescue squads went to work as they had in the nights of the blitz. At Shrewsbury a gust snatched a man and carried him to death in the Severn River. Mountainous waves rolled aside a sea wall in Hampshire and flooded many cottages...
Apparently the Varsity crew likes to see other college oarsmen row, and for the second successive Saturday, they seized the best vantage point--first place, this time against Navy, M.I.T., and Penn on the Severn River at Annapolis...
Rowing with the tide on the Severn, a salt-water inlet, the Varsity sweep-swingers covered the distance in nine minutes flat. Coach Tom Bolles' worries about the Maryland weather went for naught as the day was judged a good one for racing...