Word: southern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese doubted that Asahi would succeed. Only five months ago, when escaped War Criminal Shigeyoshi Ikeda had managed to elude all official efforts to recapture him, another Asahi task force tracked him down in less than a week at his hiding place on a remote island off southern Kyushu. This saturation system of covering the news (Asahi has a staff of 1,374 reporters, 4,066 other employees) is one of the reasons why yo-year-old Asahi (circ. 3,610,209) has an even bigger audience than the New York Daily News (circ. 2,254,644), the biggest paper...
...brother who wants to devote the time and effort to it can continue his education through various higher grades. He can go through the Scottish Rite, (Northern or Southern Jurisdiction, depending on the location of his lodge) and up through the degrees. He will be dubbed along the way Grand Master Architect, Prince of the Tabernacle, Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander, etc. At the 32nd degree he is a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret:** Or he can work up through the York Rite with fewer degrees but just as much prestige, to the top grade of Knight Templar...
Trouillas is an untidy, ramshackle village of 1,100 souls in southern France, not far from the Spanish border. Last week the name of Trouillas was heard round the world. By unanimous vote, the town council passed this resolution: "Considering its ardent desire for peace, in the name of the population of Trouillas, the council decides in unanimity to adhere to the world citizens' pact and to the movement created for a universal federation of peoples for the fight against war. We declare the commune of Trouillas world territory...
...questions touch on everything from farms to funerals, crops to courting, health, weather and insects. He has learned that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...
...hand for the ceremony was the Southern-born woman who planned the project, robust, warm-hearted Mrs. Velma Grant. In only three years, she had built and sold $3,500,000 worth of new houses to Negroes in Los Angeles. No altruist, Mrs. Grant had made a profit of more than...