Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midget road for a test case, the O'Fallon carries coal over a nine-mile track in Southern Illinois. It is owned largely by the Adolphus Busch estate which also owns the Manufacturers' R. R., a 20-mile system in Missouri physically unconnected with the O'Fallon...
...Senate investigation of textile labor troubles began to bear fruit. North Carolina's Senator Simmons withdrew his objections to a resolution by Montana's Senator Wheeler, when the scope of the inquiry was broadened to take in the whole U. S. instead of a few Southern States...
...South Africa at dawn. Traveling in a northeasterly direction-into regions where the day was more advanced-it crossed the Equator, swung eastward, ended at sunset in the Pacific Ocean between Guam and New Guinea. Although a partial phase of the eclipse was visible in parts of Africa, southern Asia and a large part of Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon the earth's surface) was over the ocean except on the northern tip of Sumatra, a segment of the Malay Peninsula, the southern tip of Siam and a few Philippine Islands...
...Brethren and sistren" occur in most anecdotes about Baptist preachers. They should occur no more. Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, threetime president of the Southern Baptist Committee, presiding last week over a conference of Southern Baptists in Memphis, Tenn., ruled that "brethren" applies alike to male and female members of the congregation...
...church to address the convention, to cast votes. Dr. John William Porter, editor of the American Baptist, stormily opposed gallant Dr. Truett. "We go right against the Scriptures!" he warned his undisputed brethren. "We break a precedent of 2,000 years!" Dr. Truett silenced his brother by quoting the Southern Baptist constitution...