Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi. North Carolina and South Carolina owe to British creditors repudiated debts, dating from the U.S. Civil War, to a total "with interest to date" of 50 million pounds ($250,000,000), or one-tenth of the present British debt...
...which six hours of study-credit are given for the year. This type of course is boiled down in 25 institutions? including Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Colorado, Occidental and Yale?to two hours a week and then usually amplified by offering advanced courses. Ohio, Grinnell, Hamilton, Amherst, Florida, Kalamazoo, Mount Holyoke, Carleton and 16 others content themselves with semester or quarter-year outline courses...
...Klondike. Thomas Meighan has succeeded in getting a good story. It tells of a major-league baseball player in the spring training camps of Florida. He is a pitcher who gets fired and plunges into real estate. There is of course a girl. Ring Lardner is the author, contributing' his shrewd and humorous observations on baseball players' foibles gathered in his old days as a sports writer...
...expects to work for a living; is, in fact, a migratory laborer. In the second place, although many of us do not realize it, he is an almost indispensable unit in the economic structure of the country. He is the gentleman who picks our oranges, lemons and grapefruit in Florida and California; who, a little later, picks our peaches in Georgia and the South Atlantic States; who, a little later still, picks our strawberries in Maryland, and who, still later, spreads all over the country, winding up perhaps at «a construction camp in Oklahoma, a tomato cannery in Delaware...
...curious poem called the Devil's Walk, and seems to have made a good deal of a stir at the time, but the incident remains to be identified. In addition there are fascinating extracts from one of the most interesting books of the period, Bartram's 'Travels in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, etc.;' extracts dealing with alligators, snake-birds, Indians and strange plants. There are references to a cave with a bubble of ice, taken from a contemporary history of Hindustan; and the habits of astronomers in the Grand Observatory in Peking...