Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canes on the floor for help. Aged women forgot their slippers and wrappers as the black-robed nuns herded them into a crawling, shuffling line down the rickety fire escapes. Querulous prayers rose in the darkness to blend with hysterical shrieks. With smoke and fire swirling about her, Mother Superior Agatha directed the exit, kept it from becoming a panic-driven stampede...
...told him it was about 52%. Did they drink anything to keep awake on the flight? No. Post touches neither coffee nor tobacco. Doesn't he drink Choctaw beer in Oklahoma? He might drink more if they made it better. Did they sense the guidance and protection of some superior being? Here one of the reporters suggested that they all pool their wits and try to suggest one significant question. The plan was not a great success...
Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...
Until recently "General Chan'' fought for Nanking under General Chang Huichang, Commander-in-chief of the Nanking air force. Last week in Canton General Chang Huichang took office as Commander-in-chief of the Canton air force. Cried loyal "General Chan," "Our Canton air force is superior to Nanking's, both in pilots and in number of planes...
...proud that his appeal is not, like that of Rudy Vallee and other famed radio entertainers, based on vocal sexuality. It rests, rather, upon the fact that his high, clear voice broadcasts much more smoothly, more truly than voices which, louder and more pretentious, would easily be recognized as superior to his on a concert stage. A voice endearing and mellifluous, silvery and vaguely sad, it is the one which all high tenors in glee clubs, bathrooms and social club quartets imagine to be theirs. When singing he stands still, raises his arms rarely in his single gesture, lifts...