Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the Finns been plagued with typhus. Bi-weekly steam baths are their chief protection. Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer of the U. S. Public Health Service, who recently spent a month traveling through Finland, believes that there is no danger of a typhoid epidemic...
...Chicago handed out 2,000 copies of St. John's Gospel at a football game, later found most of them strewn on the field, McLaughlin phoned Coach Stagg, got permission to print on the back cover: "This book will help you win in the game of life. Alonzo Stagg." Next Saturday 3,000 copies were distributed. Only one was picked up afterwards on the field...
Died. Captain Lewis Alonzo Yancey, 44, famed aviation navigator and autogiro pilot; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Yonkers, N. Y. He flew to Rome in 1929 (with Roger Q. Williams...
...December 1938 meeting of the American Dialect Society in New York City, Alonzo Turner read a paper entitled "West African Survivals in the Vocabulary of Gullah." Gullah is the dialect spoken by a group of Negroes living in an isolated part of South Carolina. . . . According to Mr. Turner's studies, Gullah jook-house (phonetically, dzuk haus), meaning "a disorderly house, a house of ill repute," is related apparently to words in two West African languages. In Wolof, dzug or dzog means "to lead a disorderly life, to misconduct oneself." In Bambara, dzugu means "wicked...
...become a circuit of universities like Chicago, which last season purified its football team out of existence. One man who sincerely hopes that may not happen is 47-year-old Clark D. Shaughnessy, coach of great Tulane teams for a dozen years, Chicago's coach (succeeding great Amos Alonzo Stagg) for the last seven. Last week Clark Shaughnessy was appointed coach of Stanford, replacing Claude ("Tiny") Thornhill, whom Stanford dropped after its disastrous last-place 1939 Pacific Conference season...