Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impending war has made whaling highly competitive. The industrial value of a full-grown blue whale is about $1,500. Whale oil can be made into glycerin (for high explosives, etc.), oleomargarine, soap, lubricants. England has stored some 80,000 tons of it for war purposes. Partly because the Antarctic...
Judge Dewhirst revealed that the House of David, never very large, had dwindled somewhat in recent years. It has 171 members, who pool their possessions, employ some 70 other people on occasion. Like many another eccentric sect, it has a rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House...
Bishop Ablewhite resigned last March, when shortages of some $99,000 were discovered in the funds of his diocese. Ordinarily, the matter would not have been discussed until the bishop's resignation came before the Episcopal House of Bishops, at its meeting next November. But last month two Michigan...
Soon as the Tribune had its story ready, it got a statement from the bishop. He denounced the "scandal mongers [who] have spoken of me as though my sole friends are publicans and sinners. That is, I am proud to say, true! I have no friends so self-respecting that...
U. S. undertakers (who prefer to be called "morticians," call their places of business funeral "parlors" or "homes") have long offered complete funerals for a flat fee. Last week in San Francisco, one Patricia Morgan, onetime Manhattan model and proprietor of a "charm" school, offered weddings similarly packaged. Her "Wedding...