Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President J. B. George of State Teachers College Hattiesburg, Miss., may occasionally run a practiced eye along the floors of the college halls. If he does, it is caused by force of habit that has lingered more than 20 years. In 1915 Freshman J. B. George modestly started his State Teachers College career in flurries of dust and dirt. He swept campus halls, dug up campus stumps, and hoped for nothing more from the college than a diploma thoroughly earned...
Police declared that only Satterlee was first arrested, but Miss Ayer demanded that she too be taken along on the grounds that she was steering the bicycle and furnishing half the power. The boat race continued and the two offenders faced Judge Arthur P. Stone of the East Cambridge district court...
...this was a pleasant change for Wanamaker's, it was no less pleasant for the Congress artists, who would like nothing better than to become home furnishers in their line. Unlike the anti-War & Fascism exhibition which the Congress held along with its Carnegie Hall session last December, last week's show emphasized quality. Sculptor William Zorach's Football Player, a lineman relaxed on his haunches, impressed critics as one of the few successful handlings to date of that oddly difficult subject. Artist Marc Perper's Poverty was an unusually solid work of imagination...
...last week Frank Krebs ran out onto the field, hopped up on the wing of an idling plane to have some routine papers signed. Before Pilot Lieut. Lewis J. Connors saw Krebs, he saw the "go" signal from the field's control tower and started the plane along the runway. Before Krebs realized what was happening it was too late to jump. He slid astride the fuselage as the plane took off, hung on by the edge of the rear cockpit for dear life. He thought he was in for a pickaback ride all the way to St. Louis...
...Springfield, Vt. last fortnight, Rev. Lawrence Larrowe, youngish Methodist minister, pulled on hip boots and, along with many another citizen on the opening day of trout season, went fishing. It was Sunday, but Methodist Larrowe had informed his congregation of his plans, and engaged a supply pastor to preach to them. Presently, eight fish in his creel, Angler Larrowe attended services at another church, and said: "I feel that I have spent a Christian Sunday...