Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Helen Maude Cam, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of History, will speak at the Bishop Rhinelander Foundation at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Her topic will be "God in History...
WANTED--For Practice--a hockey rink costing $700,000 (including endowment)--all monics to be provided by public spirited hockey followers--must not interfere with any of the concurrent "lofty purpose" drives for funds. All donations gratefully accepted and acknowledged, perhaps even in stone. Apply William J. Bingham, H.A.A. Speed is of the essence...
...election day approached, bright posters of the Communist-Socialist coalition and the new anti-Communist bloc, the Popular Alliance, were plastered on the ancient stone houses. Loudspeakers began to bray through the narrow streets. Shrilled one black-shawled peasant woman: "Why don't they both just jump off a cliff and give us some peace!" The People's Alliance, which had picked for its emblem the country's founder, Saint Marinus (who once bridled and saddled a big brown bear), shouted for its slogan "Vote for Long Beard (San Marino), not for Big Whiskers (Stalin...
...jumped from their beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows, others tried to climb down the ivy that covered the stone outside. Still others never got out at all. When dawn came, there was nothing left of "Old Kenyon" but its smoke-blackened outer walls...
...Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...