Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These questions are the main concern nowadays of dark, academically-bent Dan Golenpaul, originator of Information Please. An editorial board of Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner...
...reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
James W. Michales, 43 has been elected president of the Freshman division of the Student Union and Adam Yarmalinski has been elected vice-president, it was announced last night by the executive board...
...invited Browder to speak at a meeting sponsored by the paper as soon as the speakers committee's decision had been made public. The meeting can be held only if its is approved by the college's Committee on Student Organizations. The paper itself is controlled by a board composed of faculty and student members, with the latter in the majority...
Soldiers Field will be the site of the Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. out-door track and field meet next spring. The meet will take place on May 31 and June 1, it was announced Monday, following a special meeting of the I.C. 4-A board of directors...