Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the disease necessitated municipal action. Boston was not officially exercised over "a slight gain" in respiratory diseases for the week, nor was Minneapolis alarmed about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully echoed Seattle, "but a great many common colds." Denver, without announcing the number of influenza cases, told school children that they would have an extra week of Christmas vacation. Finally, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Neils Bundesen observed: "Those who take care of themselves aren't dying. The epidemic hasn't yet reached the virulence...
Winner was another decathloner-Glenn Morris of Denver and New York. In the list of compliments with which the Sullivan Committee always accompanies its gifts, Decathloner Morris, who got 1.106 votes, was characterized as "modest, courageous, helpful, amiable and always willing to abide by decisions and rulings ... a fine type of sportsman. . . ." Decathloner Morris discovered his vocation in a way characteristic of decathloners. A famed footballer at Colorado State College of Agriculture, he had never seen the event until he visited the 1932 Olympic Games as a spectator. Decathloner Jim Bausch's victory, with a world record score, caused...
...present at the theatre on "Bank Night"- when the prize is awarded to the holder of a lucky ticket after a drawing on the theatre stage. Since Bank Nights started in 1931, Inventor Yaeger's enterprise has grown from a two-room office to a Denver building and a chain of theatres. Perpetually under fire from state and municipal authorities who hope to find some way in which to bring it under local lottery laws, Bank Night last week experienced the worst storm of its stormy history in Chicago...
These assume a residence in your House or Club in Cambridge. We will begin with your arrival from New York--where you live, or where you have frittered away the last night of the Christmas recess on your way back from Atlanta--Oak Park-Kalamazoo-Denver. You are in your room and you are unpacking your bags. You see a book entitled "Integral Functions of the Complex Variable"--or, "The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth Century Poetry". A pang of scholastic remorse seizes you. Will you begin here and now to study it? Not if the Vagabond's well-considered...
...League was also anti-Bernerr McFadden, anti-Col, McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and anti-the Denver Post...