Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, supporting the negative, was represented by F. Welch Peel '39 and Ward M. Hussey '40. Vassar was represented by the Misses Gerry Gewirtz and Jean Symmes, while the judges were: Miss Eicanor S. Davies, Miss Kathleen Deady, president of the senior class at Radcliffe, and Mr. C. E. Allen, dean of the River School...
When investigators closed in, one of Swindler Bob's front-men threatened to kill Prosecutor Fennelly and then commit suicide. He was sent to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital. Last week Promoter Bob was sent to jail for seven years. He had lost his touch. It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict...
...been no rush to fill the ranks of Britain's little army. Civilians who were scared stiff in September by the threat of Adolf Hitler's bombers were recently informed that there was neither time nor money to build deep, underground bomb shelters, that steel shanties to ward off splinters would have to suffice. Even the long trenches gouged in London parks and golf courses for air-raid "protection" have been allowed to crumble and flood...
Selected by the Catholic Book Club as its January choice was A Guide to Catholic Action ($2), edited by Paul McGuire and Rev. John Fitzsimons of Liverpool. Of Layman McGuire, a writer of detective stories on the side (Funeral in Eden), his publishers, Sheed & Ward, say: "There is nothing quite like him for stirring a kind of steady enthusiasm for Being Catholic Out Loud." Some of the Guide's pointers for forming Catholic Action groups: > "The most suitable number for a group is usually about twelve. . . . They are to have a corporate life. They must pray together, study together...
...deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...