Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese fall on them and kill them. Missionaries in Shansi report that Japanese often steal inside mission compounds to cry, or come to the gates to whimper and beg for little comforts. Superstitions are epidemic. Nearly every dead Japanese soldier has on him a charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating bodies to be returned home for proper Shinto burial, Army officers cut off heads, cremate them for home burial...
...executive committee is composed of Langdon B. Gilkey '40 Ward McL. Hussey '40, Arthur Kinoy '41, Paul Olum '40, and Edward P. Zimmerman '41. Olum stated that a sixth member will be added to the committee if the Teachers' Union endorses the resolution...
Bruin reserves are slightly below average, but Ward Sheffe, Bill Kelly, and George Davis have indicated that they are ready to stop in to relieve their mates without weakening the team too much. The Allenmen have registered victories over the Alumni and Clark in their opening clashes...
...savage-tackling, pass-intercepting Giants stole the Redskins' tomahawk, crippled their attack and also their attackers, notably ferocious Andy Farkas. Not content with defending their goal line, the Giants brandished their own favorite weapon: in each of the first three periods they scored a field goal, two by Ward Cuff, one by Ken Strong...
Commonly considered a Communist-steered organization is the American League for Peace and Democracy (see p. 16), of which Bill Spofford is vice chairman, and another clergyman chairman: Methodist Dr. Harry Frederick Ward, Union Theological Seminary professor. At its latest meeting (held after the Moscow-Berlin Pact), the League condemned Nazi and Fascist aggression, finessed Russia. Last week, without condemning Russia, the League mousily proposed against it the same sort of U. S. war embargo it had loudly urged against Fascist aggressors...