Word: sisterhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thus you can announce to all the world and to millions yet unborn that the old Georgia, the great Georgia of Hill and Stephens and Toombs, when Kennesaw Mountain was a peak of fire and Chickamauga a field of blood, still lives to claim an honorable place in the sisterhood of 48, constituting one nation, one people, America indivisible and unconquerable...
...after he was through being Ambassador to the U.S., was getting closer to the earth. The towering lord of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire was moved by servant trouble and householder's headache to sell the hulking heap, plus a few of his many lordly acres, to an Anglican sisterhood (Order of the Holy Paraclete). The sisters planned to use it for a school building, and m'lord planned to move into the stable...
...believe that we have taken an enormous step backward in bringing "into reality the sisterhood of women." Either we should live up to our aims or we should make no pretenses of having them. Perhaps we have been lacking in "a clear vision of life" and "an appreciation of real merit and worth...
Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), perhaps the most democratic of the select sisterhood of Eastern women's colleges, last week appointed its first Negro teacher. Sociologist Adelaide Cromwell Hill, 26, who got her B.A. at Smith cum laude in 1940, proceeded to an M.A. at University of Pennsylvania, and is now working on a Ph.D. at Harvard, will join a faculty which already includes two Chinese and a Japanese...
...Each sisterhood is headed by a Mother General, the larger orders also having Mothers Provincial. All American convents are subject to the bishops of their respective dioceses...