Word: sills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each case stopped it promptly by placing a piece of cardboard over the part of the pane where the bird saw its image Otherwise the bird will keep the struggle up until it drops. My brother-in-law tells me he sometimes finds blood on the sill at his country home in Los Gatos where towhees have beaten themselves insensible during his absence. It is cruelty to animals to permit this to go on, and the Humane Society of Kansas City should see that it is ended...
Originator of the plan was Kent School's high-church headmaster, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, who coaches crew in his white cassock and sometimes, in black canonicals, substitutes as coxswain. Kent, the school in Connecticut's Berkshires where everybody does chores, was the first U. S. boarding school to send crews to the Henley Regatta. Last week Father Sill was wondering whether he should send a crew this year-because on June 15 the debt situation will be in a critical state. But British pedagogs soothed him: "We will not take it out on a schoolboy crew...
Present at the St. Paul's School meeting were such church leaders as Bishop John Thomson Dallas of New Hampshire, Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, Headmaster George Gardner Monks of Lenox School, Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Boston.* Rev. C. Rankin Barnes of the Social Service Department of the Protestant Episcopal Church. There were young Episcopalians: Harold Bend Sedgwick. Harvard 1930; Martin Firth, Hobart 1930, who spoke on "Why I Am Going to the Mission Field"; Nathaniel ("Nat") Noble. Yale 1928, who told "Why I Am Going into the Ministry." With them met students from 20 colleges...
...where he went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual, in his way, as Cozzens' Dr. Bull-Kent School's famed headmaster, Father Frederick Sill. Tall, thin, startled-looking, with thick black eyebrows and black hair. Author Cozzens could pass as much younger than his 29 years. No novice at his trade, he has free lanced since his undergraduate days at Kent. The Last Adam is his sixth book. Others: Confusion, Michael Scarlett, Cockpit...
...game of trendel with a spinning top, eat lathes (pancakes) and potato kugel, receive Chanukah gelt (gifts). One may not work by the light 'of Chanukah candles (small yellow ones) or oil lamps, which are lit nightly from the special shammus candle and placed on the window sill...