Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prudential Insurance Co., whose advertisements boast that it "has the strength of Gibraltar," received a 1½-ton chunk of The Rock itself, to be set in the corner stone of its new West Coast offices...
...future in teaching, is much brighter than the past," said Grindle Principal of Winchester High School. "The profession is becoming less and less a stepping stone to scene other career...
...Amsterdam, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced that it would forthwith equip all its planes with portable altars (including altar stone, crucifix, chalice, missal, altar cloths and a gold and purple chasuble). The innovation, said airline officials, was the result of numerous requests from air traveling priests...
Except for the smaller print, the rest of the magazine is standard in appearance and content. "The Child Is a Mirror," by Ruth Stone, is a small poem that is nevertheless rich in imagery. John Ashbery has turned up with another delicate poem; perhaps it is a little less comprehensible than usual. The same people are doing the art work again, but the cover in not Corey Weleh's best work. In general, the entire issue is not the Advocate's best, but then Spring does not come officially until March 21st...
Then Jenny died. Her last words were: "Karl, my strength is broken." So was his. On March 14, 1883, death came quietly to Karl Marx as he sat in his easy chair. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery under a flat stone. At the grave, Friedrich Engels said: "The greatest of living thinkers ceased to think. . . . He discovered the simple fact . . . that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion...