Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nordica's funeral was in King's Weigh House Chapel in London where she and George Young were married. Her casket was a teakwood trunk, carved to represent a lotus, the flower that she loved best. On his return to Manhattan, George Young walked down the gangplank bearing a box under either arm. One contained Lillian Nordica's jewels, the other her ashes...
...Blyth, Ont., John Cowan got a job as police chief, street inspector, sanitary engineer, weed inspector, Memorial Hall caretaker, trusty clerk, liquor law enforcement officer, clerk of the weigh scales, school bellringer and Town Council handyman. Salary: $600 a year...
Twice each year most undergraduates are confronted with the problem of how to make an intelligent and informed choice of courses for the ensuing half year, and just so often they are forced to weigh the risks and uncertainties of courses whose content is largely a mystery, and to make the best...
EVERY able-bodied man eligible for military service within the next thirty years owes it to himself, to his country, and to the shreds and patches of Western civilization to weigh carefully the problems upon which Hector Lazo throws a searchlight in "Taps." The book tells the story of a young, ardent, Hun-damning warrior, who, forced as a Secret Service man to pose as a conscientious objector, is finally persuaded by the force of his own assumed arguments and by the pleading of a wounded friend to become in all seriousness the determined kind of pacifist which...
...kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect of the case when the time came to weigh Hauptmann's fate...