Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended the Christian Science Monitor's taboo on mentioning death. But the Monitor still prefers the gentler passed away. In Atlanta, residents are Atlantans to the Constitution, but Atlantians to the rival Journal. In the Sacramento Bee the California weather can get warm but never (even...
...years. He plunged over for both scores last week against the Navy. The man who set up Cornell's second touchdown with two passes and a 16-yard run is quarterback Lynn Barset. All he did last year against Princeton was throw four touchdown passes. Frank Miller, of Atlanta, reeled off a 49-yard broken-field run last Saturday. He's the wingback...
...from New Orleans to Tampa by coach at night requires two changes, and a four-hour wait at Jacksonville. The only sleeper from Atlanta to Nashville bumps to a stop 43 times in ten hours. It has only recently become possible for a passenger to cross the country without changing trains-at the price of two hours of shunting in Chicago yards while the car is scrubbed and the air conditioning wavers erratically...
Writing in the New York Times this week, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill declared that the Dixiecrats' victory over Harry Truman had "at least done away with their earlier fiction that they were really the Democratic Party...
...Atlanta, eight-year-old Child Evangelist Renee Martz pulled on her cowboy boots, sermonized 3,000 people in the City Auditorium, after which her father asked everyone in the audience to buy a book at $1 a copy giving her "full life story." Proceeds, he explained, would pay for a missionary trip to Africa...