Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this are unconsciously being enacted to prove the case for romance. Stevenson and Richard Harding Davis had nothing more improbable to recount, and their best efforts failed to give the touch of credibility which is carried in a newspaper paragraph like this. As long as there are still truths stranger than fiction, there is hope for the survival of the "dime novel" and the "movie" adventure films which have been suffering a fade-out lately from poverty of material...
...poor was five dollars a ton higher than the price of coke sold by private concerns. A few days ago, in North Cambridge and Somerville, several families paid eighteen dollars a ton for an excellent grade of crushed rock, powdered with wet soft coal dust, which an affable stranger offered them in unlimited quantities. A small town in the heart of the Pennsylvania anthracite district has had to appeal to the federal government for aid in securing coal to heat its schools...
...hard to picture such a cataclysm yet stranger things than the metamorphosis of a cigarette have occurred since first "this giddy globe" began its eternal spinning. Russia is determined in all its reforms and humanity is very like Autolycus in its picking up of "unconsidered trifies". It may even come to enjoy the new status of uicotine, and discourse as light-heartedly, or as earnestly, upon it as upon the old. Another Ben may be jailed. And the value of silver ltuings proven true when, in order to instill nourishment into the o'er-watched student, her ladyship...
Tremont.-"Welcome Stranger", an entertaining comedy in which the sympathy goes to a Jewi h newcomer in a small New England town...
...survey shows something of the comprehensiveness of the organization and the work of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Its work is delimited by no creed, denomination, color, or race. It functions effectively in the University and the community, and at the same time, it does not over look the "stranger within our gates" who will soon return to his native land with a favorable or unfavorable judgment. In a word, the far reaching influence of Brooks House is another expression of those qualities which made Phillips Brooks a community...