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Word: volleyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tulsan, the Rev. Edward Henry Eckel Jr. (Episcopal) quoted Dean Inge: "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism when the wolf is of a different opinion." ∧ San Francisco clergymen held their fire until after Mother's Day, then let fly a volley. "If we don't fight now, we'll have to fight alone," prophesied Congregationalist Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, chaplain in World War 1. Publicity wise Methodist Julian C. McPheeters told his big, enthusiastic congregation: "I regard their [the pacifists'] position as both unscriptural and dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: As to War | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Trailing swimming come the other 15 activities in the following order: squash, crew, special corrective exercises, basketball, track, hockey, fencing, boxing, wrestling, tumbling, volley ball, miscellaneous activities under doctors' care, gymnasium, polo, and managers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Again Rates Tops Among Sports of Freshmen | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

...Presidency); that earnest, aristocratic Francis Biddle of Philadelphia stepped from the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Solicitor-Generalship (TIME, Jan. 8). Nor was there much surprise that five new, long-impending State Department appointments were carried through. Nominations poured from the White House to the Senate in a volley; the President was making news again faster than the press could find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Pattern | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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