Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years of schooling in the hard facts of politics, business, labor; as a poet, a big Swede trying to shape American lingo to fit his anger against bunk artists, his vague tenderness for common people, his sense of the power of U. S. Midland cities...
...Senior year at Kent in 1935 Coleman held down a tackle slot on one of Father Sill's greatest teams, and earned all-state ranking, which he describes as "pure bunk." Last year Coleman was a comparatively unknown center until the middle of October, when he was shifted to guard. A week and a half later, with Dave Glueck on the injured list, Coleman started his first Varsity game against Cornell...
...Sport? Good of aviation? Bunk! . . . We race for glory and for fame and for the money we can make." Thus wrote swashbuckling, 43-year-old Roscoe Turner, wax-mustached dean of U. S. speed fliers, in this month's Popular Aviation. Last week, at Cleveland, Colonel Turner (National Guard), winner of the famed Bend'x transcontinental air race (1933), won the Thompson Trophy classic, world's No. 1 round-&-round air race, for the third time. Like a speed-drunk bumblebee, his fat little, short-winged racer whizzed 30 times around a ten-mile course...
...Virginia hill that slopes into the Potomac, twice as many Americans as usual walked, hushed and hatless, to stand in sombre silence by the white marble Unknown Soldier's Tomb. In Sudbury, Mass., leathery old Henry Ford, who once called history "bunk" and with his "peace ship"* tried to stop World War I before Christmas 1915, told reporters: "They don't dare have a war and they know it. It's all a big bluff." About Hitler: "I don't know Hitler personally, but at least Germany keeps its people at work...
...President Frank Aydelotte and a nephew of South Carolina's U. S. Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith (see p. 15). John Rice was fired by Rollins' President Hamilton Holt because he had cried loudly that Rollins, for all its progressive claims, was full of bunk. To start a bunkless college, Rice and his followers went to the place where the word came from-North Carolina's Buncombe County. There, on a mountainside near the village of Black Mountain, they rented for the college year a Y. M. C. A. summer-conference hotel, a huge white-columned...