Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record-breaking 10,000-metre run, set still another in the 5,000-metre championship. ¶ The University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived one hour late for the high jump, found the bar at 6 ft., 7 in. Taking no time to practice, he zoomed over it with ease, went on to win a triple jump...
...existence for four years has been Lilypons, Md., so named by its postmaster and mayor, Clarence Cornelius Curtis Thomas who also owns its chief industry: 135 acres of water-lily ponds and one of the world's largest goldfish hatcheries. Although she has had her Christmas cards mailed from there for the past two years, Soprano Lily Pons visited Lilypons last week for the first time, was photographed trilling at its water lilies...
...habitable. Marshal Badoglio, delegating none of his powers, went about restoring Addis Ababa's water, light and telephone services. Small bands of bandits still lurked in the outskirts. Italian patrols were busy mopping them up. One hustled around to the U. S. legation on an SOS from Minister Cornelius van H. Engert. Plucky Mrs. Engert took time off to tell reporters how during the days of rioting she sat knitting, with a loaded revolver in her overcoat pocket...
...accidental criminal is usually quite frank in admitting his crime. Psychopaths commit crimes against persons such as murder: non-psychopaths against property, such as burglary. Many psychopathic criminals are teetotalers.-Dr. Cornelius Collins Wholey, Pittsburgh...
Colorado Springs, at the foot of Pikes Peak, looked forward this week to a cultural renaissance. Due to arrive were such Eastern artistic notables as Painter Walt Kuhn, Manhattan Dealer Marie Sterner, Collectors A. Conger Goodyear, Thomas Cochran and Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Bliss. In an auditorium in a brand new ivory-colored concrete and aluminum building these, and those residents who like to think of Colorado Springs as "the Boston of the West," were to hear Albert Spalding fiddle, watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest...