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It was there that two brothers, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson ( faculty member ), wrote the words and music to " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " ( known as the " Negro National Anthem "), in 1900.
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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
Someone evidently was on duty there.
there was no doubt he was dying.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
And there was a house ; ;
But there was water.
Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.
Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
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It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.
He was finally found in the Bates Hole region of Natrona County, two counties away.
Russ visited two places without result and his blood pressure was down to zero.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
Zing was the creation of two men, Louis Thor and Bill Blake, partners in zing!!
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.
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