Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Cheyenne, the Union Pacific's Portland Limited struck a loosened rail, went careening into an embankment. Then the bandit appeared. He was a little fellow with a wizened face and pale blond hair. He wore the shabby blue overalls of a section hand...
Work on the new building appears to be progressing. During the day there has been time for a bit of natural enough scouting around and he has not been idle at night. Frankly, being a conscientious fellow, the Vagabond has felt it his duty to keep an eye on things. So he has done his share of watching and warding...
...regard to the Jewish national homeland in Palestine. "I consider the Jewish Palestine worth while only if made possible on the highest ethical plane. The bayonets such as now support the Jewish settlement in Palestine are repugnant to the spirit of Judaism." Upholding Chancellor Magnes were Dr. Hugo Bergmann, fellow-faculty-member, and Felestin, an Arab publication. Said Felestin: "Had the Zionists attempted to work out a plan similar to this and in the same spirit, Palestine would have been a different country from what it is today." Great in Israel has been Judah Leon Magnes. U. S.-born...
...honor of being the first elected Fellow of the Canadian College went to Dr. Thomas Clarence Routley, 40. general secretary of the Canadian Medical Association. (Its president is Stephen Rice Jenkins, 71, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, a province with only 63 physicians for its 87,000 people.) Dr. Routley's election was commendation for his organizing work in Canadian medicine. Because his C. M. A. office is at Toronto, Toronto was made headquarters for the Royal Canadian College of Physicians & Surgeons. Generally acclaimed as the greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught...
...lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband, to have a baby. The first two ambitions she easily achieves, but with the third she has trouble. The scandal (which her fellow-villagers lap up but which will not greatly move the reader) enters when she turns in despair from her husband to another man, for procreative purposes only. The results are unfortunate: though she produces a son she loses her husband's love, eventually her son's respect, finally...