Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was another little Chinese girl, and she went to Wesleyan College-amid the scenery of Macon, Ga. Chung-ling Soong was her name, and her two sisters were with her. They sometimes almost romped...
...Craig, still young, is now the head of the physics department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga. He is rich, for he recently sold an invention he made while working on his doctor's thesis for $100,000. The invention is a device to take the place of battories and vacuum tubes on the ordinary radio receiving sets...
...TIME, Jan. 10, you. . . slur at old Joe Ransdell's whiskers. And why pick on poor little old Toombs County, Ga., when you have the whole state of Illinois right next door. Clean up your own front yard before digging in the ash can in our back yard. Get the beam out of your...
William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden II, onetime (1920-25) world tennis champion: "Suzanne Lenglen, 'Pavlova of tennis', barnstorming the South in Promoter C. C. Pyle's professional tennis troupe, last week said to Atlanta, Ga. newsgatherers: Tilden has passed the peak. From now on I think his game will go down rather than up. . . He is a wonderful player . . . but the fire is dying down...
...chapel announcements at Mercer University (Macon, Ga.) were more interesting than usual one morning last week. They included the romantic story of a hardworking young professor suddenly grown rich. He was Palmer H. Craig, 29, head of the Mercer physics department, a doctor of philosophy only these seven months. While working up his doctor's thesis at the University of Cincinnati he had made an invention. Now the Westinghouse Electric Co. had offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted...