Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champion Gene Tunney. After a short visit to the White House with shaggy-haired Football Coach Jimmy Conzelman, Tunney announced to reporters that the country is in good hands. "I never saw a more solid citizen. His eye is clear and he's just as solid as a wall. His jaw is square and his stomach is as flat as an athlete...
...schoolhouse at Lomianki, a village twelve miles from Warsaw, the desks had been pushed to the wall to make a waiting room for the peasants who had come to vote for the first time since 1935. Each was handed a ballot marked "3" (the number of the Communist-dominated Government bloc) by the election chairman. When asked if he had ballots for all parties, the chairman apologized, saying that he had just run out of "5," in that district the number of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's opposition Polish Peasant Party. He added that 70% of the people had voted openly...
...they answer not to thy call, walk alone, If they are afraid and cower mutely, facing the wall, O thou of evil luck, Open thy mind and speak out alone...
According to Hebrews 13:12, Jesus was crucified "without the gate." This agrees with Hebrew custom, which forbade a crucifixion or burial within a city wall. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands on a hill traditionally identified as Calvary (where the Bible says that Jesus was crucified, was buried, and rose on the third...
...Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt and Union Pacific, which owns 160,000 shares of Central. A great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Central's founder, Chairman Vanderbilt holds only some 65,000 shares. Young will be in for a scrap. But he is no man to dodge one. Wall Streeters watched with smiles of anticipation. It looked as if Central would soon be in the hottest fight since railroaders Jim Fisk and Jay Gould gave Commodore Vanderbilt his comeuppance back...