Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point to Dr. Osborn's permanent home at Sault Ste. Marie. But then, had argument arisen, still a third state could have stepped in and carried off the prize. Michigan's Governor, Georgia's citizen, who started out in the world as a cub reporter, was born, like so many other famed writers, in the once-great but latterly self-belittled state of Indiana. Dr. Osborn evinced his faith in Indiana when, in 1926, he asked President Coolidge to let him occupy a cell in Atlanta Penitentiary as substitute for Indiana's Governor, Warren T. McCray...
...giving utterance to her scorn. "The Faculty," she said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...
...would be folly to deny the absence among college undergraduates of any very real religious certitude, of the variety dealt out by pious Sunday School teachers: it is, however, not to be assumed at once that students flock unthinking after the frequently flickering electric torch of Science. Theories are born, have their being, and die in rapid tempo: the ideas set down as dogmas in a scientific textbook "brought up to the minute" a decade ago are a laughingstock now. The actual accomplishments of Science are tangible enough, but the reasoning used to explain them today merely forms a link...
...read his column, the Student Vagabond feels safe in saying, Washington's birthday comes as a very pleasant event. In fact it is in the highest degree gratifying to think that over a century and a half ago the father of his country had the remarkable foresight to be born just at this time midway between Christmas and Easter, when the spirit is wearied with much study and what...
...Born. To Mrs. Louis Okeson, 37, of Camden, N. J., a 19th child, Francis. Of the 18 brothers and sisters, nine are dead, two married...