Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swarthmore's campus, where they were fed, bedded in dormitories. The Association of American Rhodes Scholars (Rhodes alumni) promptly began to raise money to help them continue their education in the U. S. (Rhodes scholarships are good only at Oxford). Meanwhile Dr. Aydelotte asked U. S. universities whether they cared to give scholarships to his disappointed scholars...
...They were given useless jobs; no one checked up on whether they worked...
...bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference whether it "is still the Methodist Protestant conference, or is it now a Methodist conference?" Informed that it was the latter, the 16 arose, marched out of the room singing Blessed Assurance, whose chorus goes: This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long...
...week's end came a trumpeting cable from Biarritz, France, to Prince's New York office. Deny that rumor! He was in excellent health. He would be home in a month to see about this. Armour stockholders were set to wondering whether this January there would be another meeting as rowdy as that famous one in 1934 when Prince, who had bought up effective (5%) control of the stock, first landed the chairmanship...
...such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most of them are just his sourer-faced neighbors. Whether they blow things up for Nazi gold or just for the heck of it remains as mysterious as where their bombs come from. With the help of three Spanish-American War cronies, World War veterans, other hastily mobilized vigilantes, the Major drags his suspects before a kangaroo court in the plane...