Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Episcopal Church. Bishop James De Wolf Perry Sr. was born 64 years ago in Germantown, Pa., where his father was a longtime rector. Young Deacon Perry grew up in Providence, in the diocese of which his father has been the urbane, affluent shepherd since 1911. Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, which graduated young James Perry in 1928, sermonized in the Providence Cathedral last week: "You have had the heart of a priest from your boyhood. You were dedicated to the Lord by your parents...
Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean of the Harvard Dental School and president-elect of the American Dental Association, was presented the Newell Sill Jenkins Medal of the Connecticut State Dental Association at the society's annual meeting held here tonight...
...sleep well. Good morning, Sir!" And this would continue every quarter hour until chimes went six. Whereupon, sleep from me, I did complete a hasty toilet and thence to review some notings in economics. But soon my eyes did turn to two little sparrows on the window-sill, frequent visitors, who did fight most unlady-like over a crust of bread. And I thought to myself: "Stupid creatures. Know ye not economics: Divide, cooperate; and be happy!" And then I did almost hear them say: "Pray, brother, by what example teach you Marx...
...foreman uttered the words that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called...
...woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building" (of Columbia University). Are you sure it was a woodcock? That bird has some amazing traits, but the craziest among them would not, I believe, have been seen (much less captured) in such a foreign locality, even though the sill were old and wormy...