Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarcity of polo ponies available for practice it was thought necessary to make the cut directly after the second practice of the indoor season. The University squad now includes F. A. Clark '29, J. P. Cotton '29, J. P. Mandell '29, and R. B. Burnett Occ. The Second University players retained are William Stone '30, T. B. Glynn '29, L. C. Denton '29, R. D. Whedon '29, Herbert Lloyd '30, and F. E. Shine '30. The first year players who have been kept are E. T. Gerry '31, H. L. Kellogg '31, E. K. Jenkins '31, G. O. Clark...
President Hurie looked out his office window. Clarksville, he thought, a quiet town . . . trees, lawns, Missouri Pacific depot, county court house . . . not like New York, very poor, every body . . . last spring's rains and floods, top soil washed away, cotton crop a failure, last year's cotton sold for only a few cents a pound. No money in Clarksville. I have $3,000 in the bank . . . savings of 15 years teaching . . . 1912, graduated Union Theological Seminary, preached in some New York churches. Perhaps, can raise the $115,000 there...
...University. Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed by a number of men who had the spark of genius to conceive of a steamboat, a cotton gin, a dynamo or an incandescent lamp and numerous other machines and processes on which so much of life today depends. Nothing in the world is so potent with possibilities as a new idea, and really new ideas are rare and the product of genius. (Not all inventions...
...best prospects for the indoor team, according to Major Wogan, are: J. P. Mandell '29 or R. B. Burnett ocC., No. 1; J. P. Cotton Jr. '29 or W. H. White '29, No. 2; and F. A. Clark '29, back. All of these men, with the exception of Clark, have been playing on the University squad during the outdoor season just concluded...
Moreover, the British, despite Egyptian protests, have set up a system of dams and reservoirs designed to serve a gigantic irrigation system in the Sudan, where the British are endeavoring to secure independence from U. S. cotton for their Lancashire mills...