Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enough, Mo., the town post office was discontinued. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch promptly editorialized deploring the loss, hoping post offices in Missouri would not be discontinued at Huzzah, Ink, Useful, Novelty, Peculiar, Wisdom, Ponder, Aid, Braggadocio...
According to a dispatch received from Paul "Vermont" Tector '40, of Princeton, who saw Time magazine's reprint of the story on the Harvard Union ice-cream eating record, the title of David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41, as ice-cream champion of the Ivy circuit is contested. For Mitchell, who ate 18 dishes after a full meal and ran a cross country race the next day, yesterday received the following telegram...
Death, as it must to all Hemingway stories, has not yet come to finish Ernest Hemingway's. At 39, in life's prime, he has chosen to be in the midst of death. Madrid, whence last fortnight he cabled a first dispatch to the N. Y. Times, was what he described as quiet; but a shell hit the hotel where he was shaving one morning. Whether his remaining chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what...
...Japanese waited until the right moment came, then rushed forth and threw themselves upon the Chinese, engaging them in hand-to-hand conflict. At the end of the affray, some of the Chinese had taken flight, while the remaining one hundred Chinese were lying slain upon the ground. The dispatch added that the leader of the valorous band of eleven had suffered a sligh cut from a Chinese sword, which was the sum total of the Nipponese injuries...
Williams also has reason to be grateful for the smoothness with which the change was accomplished. If the actual personal transition was achieved with dispatch, it is reassuring that the policy adjustments of the college will be effected with equal case, for Dr. Dennett's friend and successor is in full sympathy with the fundamental program already under way, and contemplates no interruption in administrative continuity. An able man has been succeeded by a capable exponent of the the same faith...