Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty Cents. Up to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York marched a process server with a subpoena for the Governor to appear as witness in behalf of one Lyman H. Bevans, Albany attorney facing disbarment. Governor Smith accepted the service, either to show he held himself no different from common citizens in the law's eyes, or because he was ignorant of the fact that the Governor of New York cannot be subpoenaed. With the subpoena, Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee-50 cents -which he soon dropped into a Roman Catholic poorbox. When notified that...
...with traditional fearlessness. We Forecasts are a courageous crew. I might tell you stirring tales of the family's heroic past--of the Forecast who died for an idea-- of the Forecast who was confined for life for lack of an idea. But I will not. Rather will I show you that the Forecast of today need not hide their heads when their ancestor's names are mentioned...
...title implies, the purpose of this book is to show that the present attitude of the churches in America is contrary to the framing of the Constitution and its guarantee of religious freedom. The author's attack is upon the fundamentalist strain, running through and dominating the chief Protestant churches of this country--not, he declares, from disagreement with the fundamentalist doctrine, but because of its attitude towards the individual. A large part of its book is taken up with facts supporting this contention. In the course of his discussion he is led naturally to the statement--that we never...
...think will win? Yale has to edge, and if they show the stuff we watched last Saturday, will be easy victors. On they other hand Harvard always puts up its best game against the Blue as in the 1925 game...
...line, Scott and Fishwick are slow getting down under punts but are sturdy tacklers, and neither knows what dropping a forward pass means. Fishwiek will probably have in mind his last game in the Stadium when he took Tibby Bunnell's place as a greenhorn, and will have to show Harvard that Tad Jones has found the right position for the lanky ex-quarterback. Quarrier and Eddy are two husky tackles who should give Harvard's linemen a ride. In addition Eddy can boot the pigskin over the goal line every time on the kick-off. The writer does...