Word: advent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Post of the Yellow '90s was little flimsier than its Denver contemporaries, excepting the historic Rocky Mountain News. The latter's name alone was sufficient to carry it through the jamboree that followed Mr. Tammen's advent, and until 1913 it was in the able hands of Sen. Thomas M. Patterson. But all other Denver papers soon wilted. As soon as the Post began to pay, which was very soon, Gambler Bonfils appeared upon the scene to collaborate with Bartender Tammen in one of the most prodigious campaigns for circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst...
...interrupted them again. "I'm sorry,'" I said, "'but I shall be unable to do so... Well, I don't like to do that either, these days.' And," said Mr. Harvard, rising at the advent of a new visitor, "there...
...athletic for all" policy, instituted with the advent of W. J. Bingham '16 to the directorship of Harvard athletics has taken another step forward with the formation of a squash league to supplement the already functioning class team league. With such teams entered as the University Hall five, the Proctors, the H. A. A., the Economics Department, the Sports Managers and the CRIMSON, the league may best be described as miscellaneous...
...chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction. But such murmurs there were, even in Chicago. Three universities had in the past year embarked upon skyscrapers of learning-at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. Detroit was contemplating the advent of an 85-story prodigy, complete with barbershops, drug stores, restaurants and a car-checking system, the Book Building, 873 feet high, planned by a young real estate heir† to top all of man's monuments save the Eiffel Tower...
...Harvard Prize Play. Taking the in teresting character of a working hobo, the fascinating theme of wanderlust, Playwright Henry Fisk Carlton scrambles out a play that, seemingly, is bound for nowhere in particular. Slug, a roving farmhand, marries a hired girl. She shrinks from announcing to him the expected advent of Slug Jr., wherefore he, unhampered by consciousness of impending paternal responsibilities, takes to the high road once more. When he returns after seven years, he discovers his daughter (surprise!) and his former wife in the home of another man, a sedentary creature who has taken on the domestic burdens...