Word: ashcan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apostolic authorities as to whether the football player shall be allowed to play football, a question that enjoys a peculiar frightfulness just after the season, has just had a particularly obnoxious renascence. With the open season a month over, the familiar problem has pushed up the cover of the ashcan, straightened its necktie, shined its shoes on its trouser legs, and strode boldly into the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has, by means of intelligence tests (and what a world of blasted hopes and teary smiles is in those two words!) discovered that college athletes...
Died. Tom Davis, Negro ashman and drayer, after taking an anesthetic preparatory to a minor operation; at Niles, Mich. One day, many years ago, Mr. Davis gave a white boy a job and picked a dog out of an ashcan. Both proved faithful. A few years ago the dog was dead and the boy was rich. Pictures of both appeared in the newspapers because the boy was John F. Dodge who, with Horace E., was Dodge Brothers ("Constant improvement-no yearly models...