Word: ter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indian chief named Uhm-Pa-Tuth, billed as a Stockbridge (Mohican) Indian who had ended up on a reservation in Wisconsin, there turned to God and away from civilization and education which, he told the meeting, "don't make an Indian or anybody else any bet-ter." Marchers in the parade carried the flags of 48 States and 18 nations, including Germany's swastika, adverse comment on which was parried with the statement that thus does the Oxford Group bring nations together...
...Such a science builds the large out of the small, resurrects a greater mankind out of misery and suffering, transmutes truth into happiness, takes the patient plodding of the laboratory worker and converts it into human smiles and laugh ter." The A. A. A. S. confirmed Dr. Schwitalla's enthusiasm by electing Princeton's Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin to be president year after next. Among the reports which years hence may contribute to a "greater mankind'' were the following...
...interest, Regent Tafari in 1926 shamed and reproved white men thus: "We should never have suspected that the British Government would come to an agreement with another government regarding our Lake Tana!" Ethiopia quietly won the first League round then & there, causing Italy and Britain to drop the mat ter, much as the Hoare-Laval Deal was to be dropped nearly a decade later with a crash heard around the world (TIME...
This present first crew will race next week with each of the other boats in a number of three-quarter mile races. Af- ter these races Whiteside believes a number of inexperienced men may go into a revised first crew...
...business knowing what it is all about. If the doctor hands a patient a prescription written in the best medical Latin, it is the duty of aforesaid patient to hotfoot it to the closest apothecary shop: have same duly compounded as the Great Man has ordained; and take T.I.D. [ter in die, "thrice a day"] strictly according to directions. Not his to reason why. His but to get well if Mother Nature is willing...