Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cultural standards must somehow be upheld. . . . The universities of America must learn to play the part of Mussolini in these matters and not the part of Sousa...
...basis of its factual report, the Commission prepared to draft an effective anti-lynching statute for Southern States which would, somehow, substitute reason for rape...
...Germanic Zup. Coach Zuppke was a painter before he was a football coach. In 1905 he arrived in New York with $4 in his pockets and earned a precarious living as a sign painter (once he was overcome with dizziness while painting an enormous cigar sign high over Broadway). Somehow he obtained the post of history instructor and football coach for the Muskegon (Mich.) High School. For the past 18 years he has coached at the University of Illinois. But he never gave up art. He has exhibited many times at the Chicago Art Institute and with private dealers...
...about Berkman, Emma horsewhipped him publicly. Her fiery spirit was housed in a fiery body: in love she took her only vacations from the Cause. After Berkman came Ed Brady, Hippolyte Havel, Ben Reitman. She was very willing to take Berkman back when his prison term was over but somehow he did not want to; from then on they were just Platonic...
...born to trouble, but he somehow never gets used to it. Mendel Singer, Russian Jew, teacher of the Scriptures in the village of Zuchnow, was a harmless kind of fellow, poor like the rest of his neighbors, but with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being...