Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarks, Nathaniel B. Dial, South Carolina Democrat, delivered another speech, much the same in tenor.* Now Mr. Dial took office as Senator in 1919, having served three terms in the office of Mayor of Laurens, S. C., his birth place, and having won the esteem of his fellow-townsmen as a lawyer interested in a number of enterprises including banking, glass, cotton goods, cotton seed products and the development of waterpower. But, last summer, when he went back to his state, he was defeated for renomination by Cole Blease, onetime Governor (TIME, Sept. 8). So Mr. Dial is a "lame...
...football while waiting for the next cross-word puzzle to come out. As baseball has burst the bounds of the playing months, so football now has a carry-over. Another phase of interest is the great desire to have a winning team. Moral victories are splendid for the other fellow, and sport for sport's sake is always a fine subject, but the average graduate or undergraduate wants something that he can throw up his hat for. A losing team that goes down fighting gloriously brings no thrills...
When asked about the value of a college education in politics, Mr. Whiting was loud in its praises. "Outside of the mere bookish information which you acquire, college gives one a broader outlook on life and one's fellow men, and that after all is one of the greatest qualities a politician can have. In fact, all but seven presidents of the United States have been college graduates...
...newly-discovered injustice. It was not even a self-righteous young instructor writing to a pinko-political weekly about his just deserts. It was Dr. William Allan Neilson, President of Smith College. Dr. Neilson is also President of the Modern Language Association of America; he was addressing his fellow-scholars in that body where they sat convened in Manhattan. He was discussing a feature of a report lately published by the American Association of University Professors, against whom he said he "bore a grudge" for their unwillingness to share the burden of faculty dismissals...
...face of almost insuperable obstacles, Langford Reed seems to have produced a book. As he must be laboring under many difficulties in planning the second volume, it might not be out of place to mention for his benefit the other innocuous verse, the one about the young fellow named Young, who once when his nerves were unstrung, put his mother, unseen in the sausage machine, and canned her and labelled her "Tongue...