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...Where He Trod. In Columbia, S.C., David Joyner pleaded guilty to a drunkenness charge, had his sentence suspended when he testified that he had been on his way to church at the time...
...that the company would not move. But in a letter to the local (not part of the contract and not binding on the company), President Frank H. James gave his assurance that Norwalk would continue to be the company's center of operations. To the men who had trod the bricks for ten months, it was a face-saving gesture-and a costly sop. During the strike the workers lost more than $4,000,000 in wages, and the union went into debt by floating a $500,000 bond issue to support the strikers...
...your fathers trod...
Last year, when the seven House masters decided to slice out "entries" in the original of the plush Mt. Auburn street apartments, there were cries of "stigma, stigma." But now, the revolution seems complete. National Scholars open their mail where probationary students once trod; football players use the elevator that hauled the scions of the Gold Coast; average students joke about the resplendence that was, and the stigma that is gone...
Just before sunrise, a great procession, led by naked, ash-smeared holy men and gold-caparisoned elephants, trod solemnly toward the winter stream in a clamor of conch shells and cymbals. With ritual reverence, the first pilgrims rubbed the water into their skin and their eyes, then drank it. They believed from their scripture legends that they might thereby speed to Nirvana and be spared the pain of countless rebirths in man's universe...