Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (pop. 21,000,000) one day 20 years ago, word reached a young woman named Lydia Gruchy that her brother Arthur had met his death in the War. Arthur Gruchy had been studying for the ministry. Grief-stricken, sister Lydia resolved to carry on for her brother, to do as much for God as a woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later...
...geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California's anthropology department, pronounced it that of a 70-year-old woman with a long, narrow head. Dr. Bowden stated that the skull could not possibly be an "intrusion" since it was under a 13-ft. deposit of clay, referred it definitely to glacial times, put its age tentatively at 30,000 years. "The Ballona Woman," he wrote, "gives a more conclusive proof...
...site of ancient Athens, Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear of Princeton found the base of a statue bearing the signature of the famed sculptor, Praxiteles. The figure itself had vanished, but an inscription disclosed that it had been ordered by Kleiokrateia, daughter of Polyeuctus, wife of Spoudias. This woman was referred to in the 4151 oration of Demosthenes (361 B.C.), arguing a suit over the will of Polyeuctus, but scholars had not previously known her name...
According to statistics, 87 sets of quadruplets and one set of quintuplets must be born somewhere in the world each year. In accordance with this multiple-birth rule, in addition to the Bridges quadruplets last week quintuplets were born (dead) to an unnamed North Carolina woman confined in Duke Hospital at Durham, and quadruplets (living) to a Madame Yves Le Louarer in Brittany, France. Because no one has any rule for telling where the multiple-birth lightning will strike, only large urban communities are medically prepared for it. No one expected a prodigious childbirth in the Bridges log cabin last...
Overhearing a policeman tell a woman spectator that he did not know where the fire box was. Giles rushed off in search while Meyers plungers into the building...