Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This column is a regular feature of the Crimson...
...start coincided with the greatest influx of mosquitoes in St. Louis County history. Queerest theory advanced was that Catholic missionaries, some from Africa, convening in St. Louis last month had brought genuine African sleeping sickness. Autopsies on three victims showed the brain red and pressing down on the spinal column. Serum from the brain of one victim killed a monkey, left a rabbit unscathed...
TIME, launcher of expressive and practical new words, use following expressions in your People column instead of uncertain nephew or niece and clumsy sister's son or brother's (laughter...
...marching" column stretched out for a mile and a half. It was kept in order with the help of radio networks, one relaying messages from Expedition Commander Major John A. Robenson in the vanguard to officers in the rear, another connecting the column with Fort Bliss at El Paso. When the caravan reached Terlingua the horses were unloaded and the cavalry proceeded under their own power 15 mi. to the Mexican border. A significant experiment in army transportation, the expedition indicated that U. S. borders could be protected by distant major posts, thus eliminating the cost of permanent border forts...
...brain trust, and all the machinery for rehabilitation which was climaxed by the National Recovery Act. Not only has he bound the people to his support but even the recalcitrant press. The New York Herald-Tribune, which last fall was accustomed to give Hoover's unimportant speeches five-column headlines and deliberately under-rate one of Roosevelt's key messages, now tucks away in an unimportant position, accusations of some merit against the administration coming from Representative Bnell (R.) Undoubtedly the President has realized what a tremendous asset the press can be and has organized and directed his publicity better...