Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid sobs from the congregation, the collection plates were heaped high with money to free the slave girl. Thereafter Henry Ward Beecher, zealous Abolitionist, continued to bring slaves into his Plymouth Church. This congregation had been founded in 1846 by three men who broke away, from the nearby Church of the Pilgrims. Inducing Henry Ward Beecher to be their preacher, they soon heard people saying: ''If you want to hear him preach, take the ferry to Brooklyn and then follow the crowd." Preacher Beecher stayed with Plymouth Church for the remaining 40 years of his life...
...more efficiently their combined properties worth $1,000,000 and their $500.000 endowment, the two congregations totaling 1,500 voted to merge. Under the name "Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,'' with two ministers alternating in the pulpit, the new church will retain the building to which Henry Ward Beecher brought fame, dispose of the other. The name of the great preacher appeared patly in headlines. This week a full-sized portrait of him, his father and nine of his brothers and sisters is to be published by his grandnephew, Publicist Lyman Beecher Stowe. Called Saints, Sinners and Beechers...
...Mens sana in corpore sana;" cleanliness is next to godliness, and the shower room is next to Ward 3. And what a shower! We believe (and who will disagree?) it is impossible to overstress the importance of perfection in shower fixtures. This shower is just like a woman, one moment hot, the next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon...
...Massachusetts General Hospital, the money will be used for a small psychiatric ward for the special treatment of early cases. The unit will cooperate closely with the recently founded McLean Hospital in Waverly. Thus the incipient cases will be studied at the Massachusetts General Hospital, while the more difficult cases will be handled in Waverley...
...average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump of 62%. ]. J. C. Penney's chain stores reported sales for the first two months up 41%. S. H. Kress sales were up 30%, Great Atlantic & Pacific up 5.18%. Montgomery Ward reported another roaring month in February with sales up 52.2%. Their retail stores showed an increase of 29.9%, their mail order division 80.7%. General Motors' sales to consumers in February topped 58,900 units against 42-280 in the same month last year. Sales to dealers were up from...