Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem to indicate that it is not the voters who bear the brunt of the burden of electoral vicissitudes. For from an account of the recent proceeding at Bryn Mawr in The College News it would appear that every May Day queen pays a price for her crown in shoe leather if nothing else...
Evangelist Moody was born in 1837, became a shoe-seller, then an ardent saver of .souls. He hammered on the word of God as if it had been a heel-peg, with, determination, with insistence, with enormous vigor, but without superfluous gesticulation. Said D. L. Moody, early in his career: "... I wouldn't let a day pass without speaking to some one about their soul's salvation . . . There will be 365 in a year that shall hear the gospel from my lips." With Ira David Sankey, who sang hymns, he toured the U. S. and England, giving...
With a uniform increase in, tuition the shoe is bound to pinch somewhere. For the approximate two-thirds or more students who are not self-supporting there will be no great hardship. It would be safe to say that for at least half of this number the regular opportunity to pay the entire bill would be welcome. They should not, and in most cases, do not care to accept philanthropy in the case of education. Since it seems impossible to develop any system which would operate efficiently in the form of a sliding scale arranged on the ability...
...family twist and struggle along trellises of suffering and achievement. He worked in the fields of the great farm, fell in love with Dora Tarkington, filled his mind with knowledge. Then a day came when, with Dora and his mother he rode to the station, carrying a shoe box full of sandwiches. When the train came in, David said goodby and boarded it for Springfield. There he would work, study and, afterward, practice law. On that day the story ends...
Commented The Nation, intellectual weekly: "Riches and power?and orders for shoe polish. There was once a man who talked differently. 'Blessed are the meek,' he said. 'Why take ye thought for raiment?' 'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' 'Go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage...