Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disproof of their "backwardness," Arkansans point to Senators Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader, and Thaddeus H. Caraway; also to Major 0. Lee Bodenhamer of Arkansas, Commander of the American Legion. No veteran himself, Governor Parnell worked for Bodenhamer's candidacy, helped to insure his election at Louisville (TIME...
...coast this month, was made known yesterday. The invitation which was extended only to senior members of eastern teams in the majority of cases allowed for the exception of Ticknor whose brilliant play resulted in his selection for the center position on almost every one of the mythical "All-American" teams published by sporting authorities...
...bringing men of different Houses together several times a week. A revision of the club system in this direction would retain most of the real advantages of the present system and do away with the isolated clique tendency which finds its fullest and worst development in so many other American Colleges...
President Lowell has been named by the "American Hebrew" as one of the three Christians to be honored for their promotion of better understanding between Christians and Jews in America in 1929. President Butler of Columbia and John D. Rockefeller Jr. are the other two. Presidents Lowell and Butler are honored because it was at their invitation and under the aegis of Harvard and Columbia that seminars on Protestant-Catholic-Jewish relations are held during the year...
...shall at any rate watch with a very real interest the forthcoming developments, inasmuch as they will be the first manifestations of a movement, which may affect many American universities. They are certain to be quite at odds with anything we have hitherto tried on any scale; as such they merit careful consideration. In the last analysis, however, we are secretly glad that the hostages of fortune will be drawn from other ranks than ours. --Yale News