Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...
...Club, Manhattan. At their head was Rex Beach, another gentleman who has turned his two-fisted, eminently practical attention to things so various as gold-digging in Alaska and writing popular fiction in the U. S. Mr. Beach lately acquired large tracts of rich black soil near winter Park, Fla. He studied at Rollins College from 1891 to 1896 and is president and guiding spirit of Rollins alumni...
...pockets with realty profits, as other Northerners were doing; but to advance the cause of learning. He was Hamilton Holt, sociologist, peace promoter, onetime (1897-1921) editor of his grandfather's liberal weekly, The Independent. He became president of Rollins College? (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925) at Winter Park, Fla., and he proceeded to get Rollins mentioned soon and frequently in educational journals by abolishing lectures; instituting an informal course in things bookish; and coming out for frankness about professionalism in college athletics. He made Rollins College sound like a sensible little institution with no frills or fads about it. Nothing...
...famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor in of the "swan dirge" expression stands on a level with the Havana flower peddler, who sprays his roses with cheap synthetic perfume. K. DAHLBERG Coral Gables, Fla. Mention...
High moments for the Elks were: 1) their decision to convene next year in Miami, Fla.; 2) their election of John Frank Malley, Boston lawyer, as Grand Exalted Ruler; 3) Grand Exalted Ruler Malley's speech of acceptance...