Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million copies. Looking Backward seemed only a sugar-coated romance ; actually, it was propaganda for a Socialist Utopia. Among those who have acknowledged its influence on their thinking have been Mark Twain, William Dean Ho wells, George Bernard Shaw, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, William Allen White, Eduard Benes. Unlike most Utopian outlines, Looking Backward presented a concrete program for the modern world...
...rollicking music from the deep throats of the mountaineers in church, singing "Lonesome Valley" to save a boy and girl who "pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only we just as soon she's daid"--flit by John in the forest, flaunting their sensuous beauty, mocking his effort to escape the fetters of Hell and assume human form...
...Allen B. Crow, president of the Economic Club of Detroit, reported that almost all of 200-odd business and professional leaders he had questioned consider U.S. higher education a waste of time & money...
...Hunter, 124, (RPI) defeated Ken Amnenworth, 122, (H) by decision; Tony Taylor, 123, (H) defeated Buck Davis, 126 1/2, (RPI) by decision; Jim Rafil, 132, (H) defeated Mel Allen, 135 1/2, (RPI) by decision; Francis "Rosie" O'Grady, 132, (H) defeated Leo Trupin, 134, (RPI) by decision; Jack Beinschrotch, 156, (RPI) knocked out Hugh Courtwright, 153 (H) in first round; Leo Col. 161, (RPI) defeated Jay Dotson, 155, (H) by T.K.O. in third round; Art Clyde, 161, (RPI) defeated Rusty Hankin, 163, (H) by decision...
Prophets & Pipelines. For months there have been rumors of monkey-business on college courts, but only Dr. Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen, outspoken University of Kansas coach, had said anything out loud. Last October Phog Allen roared that he knew of two cases where college players were bribed to throw games. Now that the lid had blown off in Brooklyn, everyone tried to talk at once...