Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meharry College goes back to a wandering Irishman who raised five sons as Methodists. Prosperous for their time (post-Civil War period), they gave their joint surplus of $30,000 to the Methodist Episcopal Church for a Christian college to train colored youths in medicine. The church founded the college at Nashville. First head and instructor was Dr. George W. Hubbard, onetime Union Army private who had hastily studied medicine. His helper was Dr. W. G. Snead, onetime Confederate Army surgeon. Present president of Irish-founded Meharry is Dr. John J. Mullowney, white...
...business at Detroit as the Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp. sales agents. Last week at Detroit, Flyer Schlee was turning over a plane propeller by hand, to start the motor. He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor. His motor did not start. The propeller kicked back, struck him, tore flesh, broke an arm bone, concussed his brain. Detroit surgeons found that he had a fair chance to live...
...Other creatures would fly up alongside with queer marks on the sides of their bodies. "HELLO SON? HERE IS PA AND MA JACKSON," said the marks one time, after the soaring one had been up long enough for a buzzard to sail from St. Louis to the Gulf and back by easy stages. The more-than-400-hour refueling endurance flight, the St. Louis Robin and Pilots Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, going on and on as last week ended, was a mystery to buzzards. What could it mean...
...Island four with James C. Cooley, oldtimer, at No. 2 and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney at No. 3. The Midwests-with W. Seymour ("Shorty") Knox of Buffalo at No. 1, Barney Balding and William Blair of Chicago in the middle, Nelson Talbott of the poloing Dayton, Ohio, Talbotts at Back. The Old Aikens-the college team, three parts Yale, one part Harvard. They have played together for years. Their first teacher was Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., mother and coach of Internationalist Hitchcock. Her younger son, Frank Hitchcock used to be in its lineup but was replaced four years...
Youth and Age played together in France to try to get the Davis Cup back to the U. S. Youth was too young, Age too old. The cup stayed where it was. Experts agreed it would have stayed there even if there had been more Age and less Youth. As it was, Youth got some valuable experience...