Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily newspaper in the U. S. In the intervening span the Depression has left its mark. Moses L. Annenberg's aggressive Tribune has invaded Miami and rugged, friendly Herald Publisher Frank Barker Shutts has turned 66. Nevertheless Herald money-making continued in sufficient measure so that Akron, Ohio Beacon-Journal Publisher John Shively Knight was politely rebuffed in July when he asked if the Herald was for sale...
...colorful than Publisher Shutts, 43-year-old John Knight has made his personality felt through life-long knowledge of editorial practices which click. His father, onetime Representative Charles Landon Knight, left the editorship of the Woman's Home Companion in 1903 to become part-owner of the Akron Beacon-Journal. During vacations from Akron public schools, John Knight served tedious apprenticeships in the mechanical and business departments of his father's paper. Son John was given the managing editorship in 1924, made publisher in 1928. In 1927 John Knight bought the Massillon, Ohio, Independent, is still its president...
This increasing organization of intramurals has come at a time when every college is in need of such organization, as all over the country Varsity athletics are finding themselves embroiled in the question of commercialization versus non-commercialization. House sports here are a beacon light toward the shore of sport for sport's sake. That enthusiasm and spirit has been injected into these intramurals is a credit to Harvard...
...heading for its final land stop at Cristobal in the Canal Zone. Pilot Stephen Dunn, Wartime Navy flyer and six-year veteran on P.A.G. runs, approached the field through thick cloud and heavy rain, passed over the zone of silence extending straight up from the field's radio beacon, radioed that he was backtracking to make a landing. It seemed most likely that while he was spiraling down, the sea loomed up at him too suddenly through the murk to escape a crash...
...dripping trees and haloed lamps. Misty forms stroll arm in arm along the banks of the swan pond. Like an oasis shunned, the Common lies abashed under the roof of pale clouds. Autos beat a noisy circle about the park, tires licking the pavement. Ahead tower the fortresses of Beacon Hill, cold and Puritanical...