Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the Protestants have magnified the effect of their strength by a shrewd drawing of district boundaries, to pile up the votes where they counted the most. The Catholic party bitterly resented such gerrymandering. "See that woman pushing her pram up the hill with two babies and bundles, and her pregnant?" asked a Londonderry Republican. "Those houses she's going to could have been put up down below on as level a piece of land as ever you saw, but it might have risked a Unionist majority, to put working-class Catholics in that district." He snorted...
...child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once the whole story-which I do not want to tell...
...incident that changed her whole outlook occurred one day when she read the lips of a woman who was saying to a group of people: "Never mind Marie- she's deaf." Suddenly Marie realized that for years she had been kidding herself and giving way to a form of vanity that made her refuse to face facts. Soon afterwards she got herself a hearing aid. With it, she got a new life...
...liberal arts school in a scientific age is hard enough; raising it for a women's college, as Dean Mclntosh knows, is the limit. As a male educator once put it: "When a man wants to leave money to his college, he leaves it. When a woman wants to leave money to her college, she finds that her late husband has tied up her money in a trust fund so that she can't make a fool of herself...
...Women Should Realize." Dean Mclntosh also has a bone to pick with the idea that a woman who is "only going to get married" doesn't need college. "Women should realize their own power and influence in the creation of the community and the home . . . It's ridiculous to give a man a very specialized training, and then expect him to do a good job, if the woman he marries ruins his life...