Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked up the prayerful chaplain's "rules of reason" and used the phrase as a knife to stab the Senate's faith in God. For the man to be honored by the statue authorized by S. J. Res. 21 was no other than Robert Green Ingersoll. Since 1930 the Freethinkers have been collecting funds to erect a statue of their agnostic hero, first planning to dedicate...
...offers this vital service. Only one trained in the science of vocational guidance-can do such work. It is a profession by itself, and no person shifted afternoons from Lehman Hall can really fulfill this specialized function. If the University wishes to make anything more than a half-hearted stab at a problem which it has confessed to be important, then it ought to secure the part time services of an expert in this field. A University can render hardly any greater service than the prevention of misfits; and the helpful guidance of men into the most genial careers...
Timely cashing-in on the kidnapping epidemic, wherein the "phoney"' disappearance of a banker becomes real. In his fortified Park Avenue penthouse, a dozen others, guards and guarded, fret, stab and shoot, the good finally departing over the corpses...
...darkness like some hideous appartion in a nightmare. Suddenly there was a dead silence, and then a muttered "ah." Back in the musty corridors there was a swishing sound and slowly a black object appeared. The figure walked back and forth dragging heavy objects, stopping and cringing at every stab of lightning. Eight, nine, ten lifeless emaciated bodies of human beings formed a pyramid on the floor...
...waggled a steel drive at an imaginary golf ball. "I can tell you one thing: I'll certainly enjoy business more than books. If there's anything I hate, it's to sit down and study the theory of economics. I may come back next spring and have another stab at the general, but I doubt it. Hey, where's my putter...