Word: stoutness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freight left Hartford, Conn., last week and arrived in Havana, Cuba. It carried Royal typewriters. The carrier was a Ford-Stout all-metal, three-motor airplane. Included in the equipment was a device to drop freight by parachute. It dropped these typewriters from a height of 700 feet. Unbruised, they worked perfectly...
...religious activities in U. S. colleges. Having ended Union Theological Seminary studies, he took his wife, who had herself studied medicine, to China. There their baby was born in 1898 (the excitement interrupted one of the young father's most interesting letters), teethed, had colic, caught the grip, grew stout...
...Sure you can," said a stout gentleman. "Be calm. Just go ahead and 'tend to Mr. Flinn...
...Princeton in recent years he acquired a stout following chiefly among members of the Philadelphian Society, the university Christian organization. These young men, made zealous, tried to bring their friends to grace, delving with dangerous ignorance into delicate problems. The university authorities asked Mr. Buchman to keep away, banned his technique...
Father John Roach had learned to breast publicity long ago in the lesser ponds of his early pastorates-in Chicago, Baltimore and Norfolk. He had no coach other than his own intuition and his experience. The sons of the pastor, however, have had his stout hands under their chests as they began paddling into public attention. Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, eldest of the sons and now pastor of the New Berean Baptist Church in Philadelphia, had his father's help in getting ordained in spite of Baptist opposition (TIME, Aug. 2). Last week, "followed up" by Manhattan newspapers, Warren Badenock...