Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote-getting, it was Candidate Woollen who gave Senator Arthur R. Robinson a bad scare last autumn as one of the Democratic senatorial aspirants that cut the Republican lead from its normal 100,000 in Indiana to a scant...
...World mistakenly said last week, Senator James E. Watson. Opposing Senator Watson last autumn was Democrat Albert Stump...
...Rollins' football schedule for next autumn is the University of Miami,* which is said to have other attractions for athletes than scholastic enlightenment. The University of Miami is less than a year old and consists of some 200 freshmen who attend classes in a hotel lent by a real estate development company. And yet, Miamians saw fit recently to launch a drive for $500,000 to build a football stadium. "Building this stadium," said one publicist, "is the best possible way to prove to the North that Miami is not down and out, but is still going strong." Skeptics urged...
...said that 75 women, from very young to quite elderly, should never have been taken along with 400-odd young males. They were hindrances and distractions, said the grumblers. They were hard to care for ashore, admitted the administration, and co-eds would not be enrolled again this autumn...
...reward. Practically the sole divisions of the Pulitzer selections which the average citizen is in any way capable of judging are those of the drama, the novel, and possibly that of the newspaper editorial. In "Abraham's Bosom" the jury has elected a thoughtful and sincere play; in "Early Autumn" a restrained and carefully finished piece of fiction; and in "The Herald Commends", an editorial which was not only worthy in itself but which took a brave and courageous stand on an important topic. If the Pulitzer prizes have established a precedent for discernment that precedent has not been violated...