Word: couched
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...assure his re-election in November. Well did each divorcee recall Judge Bartlett's warm friendly chambers on the second floor of the ornate courthouse where her decree had been granted-the pictures of the judge's family and dogs, the worn leather chairs, the old leather couch on which she, as a wife, sat and told her troubles to the judge behind his disordered desk. At that same desk sat Judge Bartlett last week reading stacks of congratulatory telegrams from women he had separated from husbands...
Early one morning last week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract...
Astronomer Lowell's calculation of the planet's existence was gloriously praiseworthy for human mentality. But it was not unique. Neptune was discovered Sept. 23, 1846, in precisely the same manner? by figuring from the orbital variation of Uranus. Wholly independent of each other John Couch Adams, young Englishman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, young Frenchman, did the mathematical work...
...Griffin, Ga., Harvey Couch returned to his family home, found John Rogers. 91, ex-slave of the Couch family, living on the old plantation. Rogers in 1870 had loaned his bankrupt owners $4 which was repaid him with...