Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the National Geographic Society reported that its South American survey plane was cruising from Miami to Havana when: "Pilot Hawkins, to avoid an angry black cloud, veered to port. Then, to our amazement, there quickly dropped from the north end of the storm cloud a thin writhing black column of a waterspout. In a few seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising...
...prizefighter, statesman, explorer, doctor, will avow: "If Bob Davis wants my shirt, it's his." For of Robert Hobart Davis, editorial writer of the New York Sun, onetime associate editor of Munsey's, it is scant exaggeration to say he has "been everywhere, knows everybody." His column in the Sun headed "Bob Davis Recalls:" is an inexhaustible diary of encounters with the lofty and lowly in every part of the globe, a quarter century's wealth of colorful experience...
...Hurst. When she departed, she sent 25 telegrams. In 48 hours arrived a score of manuscripts from famed authors. Soon the Sun's readers found on the editorial page, "Fannie Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb Recalls:", "Mary Roberts Rinehart Recalls:"- friends of Bob Davis pinch-hitting in his column. The list grew so long-Ben Ames Williams, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Newton Booth Tarkington, Ring W. Lardner, Sam Heilman, Sophie Kerr, Dorothy Canfield, Henry Louis Mencken, Montague Marsden Glass, George Ade, etc. etc.-that the Sun's Bob Davis column promised to become a complete parade...
Last month Editors Edward T. Horn and Lester A. Blummer of the "Berry Patch" (funny) column in the Cornell Daily Sun decided that the time had come to celebrate the 150th birthday...
...value of this conception of college as the pleasant interlude before life "in the great world" begins, it is obvious that from a practical point of view college training is often viewed as a doubtful advantage by the great world itself. According to a press appearing in the adjoining column, "perhaps it is less that college training really equips men for important roles in life as it is that the college offers at least a recognized system of some sort of training, is convenient and conventionally accepted, and works better than no system...