Word: booth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wood-Booth Rivalry...
...games played between these two institutions, none have probably equaled the drama of the years 1929 through 1931, when the famous Barry Wood-Albie Booth rivalry held the nation's interest. Wood, one of the greatest athletic figures in Crimson history, was tall, dark, and powerful. Booth was small, crafty, and renowned for his place-kicking ability...
...week in which U.S. citizens had their date in the voting booth, the Chief made no attempt to feel the pulse of the nation or even of Pawnee County. Neither did the Lenox Time Table ("The Only Newspaper in the World That Cares Two Whoops for Lenox, Iowa") nor the Trinity County (Calif.) Journal, nor any of the rest of the Bugles, Couriers and Standards which came smudgily from flat-bed presses in the nation's small towns. But this week, as every week, the nation's country weeklies held a feel and flavor of U.S. life which...
Many a campus monthly pointed with pride to famed alumni (but few of the famed alumni point with pride to their campus work). Princeton's Tiger boasts of names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Whitney Darrow Jr. The Yale Record printed Lucius Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet and Peter Arno. Milton Caniff was art editor of the Ohio State Sundial. John P. Marquand, Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley began on the Harvard Lampoon...
...Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal the card in an envelope as he stood in the secret polling booth...