Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Detroit, 3000 college students from Canada & the U. S. gathered to attend the Tenth Quadrennial Student Volunteer Convention. They wanted to find out "What is right, what is wrong and who is responsible for good or bad in foreign missions?" To answer these questions for the 3000 students came missionaries from dangerous distant lands, U. S. leaders of all Protestant Evangelical denominations. They met together in a Masonic Temple...
...ceremony was a simple one. A truck moved the two 5,000-lb. sarcophagi across the Marion cemetery where they had rested temporarily, President Harding's since 1923, Mrs. Harding's since 1926. Baptist ritual was read. Then guardsmen of the Tenth Infantry took their posts and the Marionites went home, again full of love and admiration for the jovial, handsome man whom today's young men and women of Marion can remember as a fond patter of heads and chucker of chins when he was Marion's leading citizen, then Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, then a U. S. Senator...
...Baker as presidential timber, Mr. C. B. Bratton, Waco, Tex., writes (TiME, Letters, Dec. 5) : "No man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him." Mr. Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom he came in personal contact with. Therefore, Mr. Bratton does not know any thing...
...Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. At them leered, from canvas, black faces-the faces of Negro Frenchmen, Negro Britishers, Negro Jews. The faces-explained a leaflet signed by famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made by three painters who accompanied him to Haiti on the tenth expedition of the New York Zoological Society. "Never, I believe," wrote Explorer Beebe. "has any one country been so vividly presented in crayon, water color...
...Hollis--"Tenth Avenue," 8.20 o'clock. Crooks, melodrama and the New York underworld...