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Word: benning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Hutchinson, Kans., started one Vada Watson, 19, blue-eyed, slender, beautiful, who won a beauty contest at the inaugural ball of Governor Ben S. Paulen. She took with her a sack of wheat-wheat harvested by Warren G. Harding on a Kansas farm less than two months before his death. She bore it to Calvin Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Outside in the streets, crowds surged restlessly in front of great sign boards. Newspaper offices were besieged. Thousands upon thousands of tympanic membranes were clamped to the receiver ends of thousands of radio sets. Telephones and. telegraphs buzzed and tapped. In the distance, Big Ben chimed 3 a. m. It was London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: England Drubbed | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Flaming Love. The producer helped himself to Eugene O'Brien, Ben Alexander, Mae Busch and several other expensive luxuries in casting this picture. The investment seems to have been sound. Without their able acting, the old Western story would have wabbled. It tells of an open-spaces girl married to a creaky drunkard from the East, how he gambled away his character and her fortune and how the burly, silent hero suddenly stepped in from the side lines. The genuine and inventive talents of Miss Busch, in particular, were highly helpful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

Ding, dong, dell, Chancellor Ernest H. Lindley was in the well. Who put him in? Governor Jonathan Davis. Who pulled him out? Governor Ben S. Paulen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Kansas | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

...fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 19) the State Board of Administration of the University of Kansas, at the insistence of the retiring Democratic Governor Jonathan M. Davis, ousted Chancellor Lindley. Last week, began the regime of Republican Governor Ben S. Paulen. As forecast, Dr. Lindley was reinstated as Chancellor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Kansas | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

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