Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dripping Fingers, One day last autumn some 20 Kansas City lawyers paid a call on Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves. They asked for a Federal investigation of Kansas City elections. Judge Reeves, tall, bony, with sagging cheeks, stone grey hair and 14 years on the Federal bench, told them to get evidence of fraud at the election on Nov. 3, promised to investigate fully after election...
...services. For two decades a notable U. S. dean has been Very Rev. George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, onetime president of the Society of Deans of Cathedrals in America, associated with the "National" Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul in Washington, D. C. since it was in blueprints 40 years ago. Tall, shy, scholarly Dean Bratenahl knows more about cathedral traditions than anyone else in the U. S., for years chairmanned the Washington Cathedral's building committee, was its official iconographer in charge of steeping its fabric of glass, wood and stone in mystic symbolism...
...Tennessee's 50 colleges is the most informally-named in the U. S. and, according to its founder, the only one in the world where Greek and Hebrew are required subjects for students majoring in Religion - Bob Jones College in Cleveland. Alabama-born Bob Jones, a tall, husky Methodist who held his first service at 13 and was licensed to preach at 15, founded his institution a decade ago in northern Florida, planning it as a college for preserving the Bible and "the oldtime decencies" and still appealing to young people. He began with 132 students, confounded pedagogs...
...addition to Healey and Woodward, both tall, strong righthanders, the roster, as thus far reported by assistant manager Gray Thoron '38, numbers: pitchers, Thomas W. Casey, David 8. Cohen, Douglas Mercer, Ray F. McPherson, Dick H. Mudge, Jr., Philip C. Starr; catchers, Robert Fulton, Ernest S. Merrill, Peter E. Pratt, Edward W. Reed, and Russell J. Ryan...
...years ago when a tall, likeable graduate of Virginia who had turned professional came to Cambridge to try and build up the sport of boxing here: and last year when the Army came to town for a match, the greatest crowd in the history of minor sports filled the Indoor Athletic Building to watch the fun. It was a remarkable tribute to another of Harvard's popular coaching family...