Word: amenities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nebraska's End Paul Amen, when his teammate Gus Peters fumbled a Missouri pass he had intercepted a moment before, put out his hands and caught the ball. Officials ruled that this freak recovery and the touchdown that resulted were legal. Two more touchdowns gave Nebraska its third straight conference victory of the season...
...press, when its members arrived in Birmingham a few days later they showed pleasure at the inclusion on one program of Dr. Channing Tobias, national director of Negro Y. M, C. A. work. Obliged by municipal ordinance to sit in separate sections, Birmingham Negroes gladly attended meetings, shouted "Amen" and "Glory Be!" The No. 1 Missioneer, Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, led off the opening meeting: "Constantly I remind myself that the Romans said, 'these Britons make the most unlovely, thick headed slaves we have here. . . . No good will ever come out of Britannia...
...eyed Townsendites, who had been whooping and hollering "Amen!"' all through the speech, climbed on their chairs, made their earlier cheers for Dr. Townsend sound like feeble piping. Magnanimously Preacher Smith beckoned Dr. Townsend to his side. Spotlights speared down, flash bulbs popped as the old doctor put his bony hand in the young preacher's. In the press box, newshawks who had watched the pair in recent days, had seen Dr. Townsend consult Preacher Smith on every move, let him act as their joint spokesman, believed they were witnessing not a union but a usurpation...
...inscribed stone, only one yet found which could have been in existence in Christ's time, remained untranslated until Smithsonian's Dr. Lamsa deciphered it last week. He read: As a good memorial for Zebedee, son of John, who made this pillar as a memorial for himself. Amen. Presumably Memorialist Zebedee was the same father left by Disciple John and Brother James in the fishing boat with the hired servants...
...Wichita Transportation Co., Christian E. Klag folded his hands and intoned: "Dear Jesus, help me this morning to be truthful and honest and to show my cause is just and that I have been unfairly dealt with. Help the jurors to see the light, we ask in Thy name. Amen." Judge Roby Nesmith promptly declared a mistrial, dismissed the jury...