Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southern football spectacularly emerged from obscurity in 1906 when the late Dan McGugin, brother-in-law and onetime pupil of Michigan's great Fielding H. Yost, coached a team at Vanderbilt University which scored a 4-to-o victory over the football sensation of the age, Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indians. It emerged again after the War when Centre College, an almost unheard of institution of 200 students at Danville, Ky. flared up briefly with All-America Quarterback Bo McMillin* and upset a string of topflight U. S. teams...
...link between the well-known Basket Makers and the mysterious, much earlier "Folsom Men" whose bodily remains have not been found although they left an abundance of their characteristic "Folsom points"-stone weapons with a shallow groove chipped out on each side of the blade. Dr. Steward estimated the age of the Salt Lake child at 5,000 to 12,000 years...
Said Benjamin Franklin: "Mechanical thrift for a mechanical age is an essential. The best safeguard for national investments is a nation of investment-minded people. At present, the opportunities for thrift are restricted by the time factor." He was speaking to the Manhattan convention of the Thrift and Security Foundation. He is a descendant of a brother of Patriot Benjamin ("A penny saved . . ."). Franklin, an industrial engineer and business counselor, has a grandson to carry on the name...
...MINSTREL BOY-L. A. G. Strong- Knopf ($3.75). The middle half of the 18th Century, in Europe, was a kind of waiting time. Artistically an awkward bridge between classicism and the fierce romantics, politically a feudal afternoon of dying magnificence, it was a Golden Age gone tinsel without anyone quite realizing the change. Good and bad, wealth and poverty, freedom and tyranny seemed to have struck a permanent balance. It was a time of elaborate facades and filthy backstreets, of nearsighted perceptions and long-range emotions. If a gentleman, posting hastily through the slums, had a tear...
Born late enough in this period to give him a running jump into the more stirring times that followed was Tom Moore, a short, bouncing, dandiacal Irish poet, whose life and work expressed the age's contradictions perhaps as well as any man's. Son of a prosperous Dublin greengrocer, he was schooled at Trinity College, where he was a classmate and familiar of the great Robert Emmet, was involved with him in such seditious pranks that the pair escaped arrest and imprisonment only by the narrowest of margins. It was not until Moore had settled in England...