Word: gaffney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paths are slim for electrons going at high speed, broader for slower moving ones. This is a phenomenon noted in Professor Floyd Karker Richtmyer's physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor...
...Librarian Mattie Pearson of Gaffney. She concluded that Scarlet Sister Mary was too promiscuous, even if she was the brainchild of Mrs. Peterkin. Mrs. Pearson saw to it that the book stayed off the public shelves of Gaffney. When Gaffneyans came asking for Scarlet Sister Mary they were told she had been suppressed for immorality...
...when the Cherokee Times stepped in. Commercially it seemed a good bet to get permission, quickly granted, to publish Scarlet Sister Mary serially. Intellectually it was exciting for Editor-Publisher George B. Lay, 32, and his two young associates-Thomas Freeman and W. Wells Alexander, each 22-to awaken Gaffney from what they, as college men, called its "uncultured daze.'' Moreover, there was, as Mrs. Peterkin said in her letter to Mr. Lay, the possibility that Librarian Pearson had eaten something disagreeable the morning she proscribed the book...
Newspapers throughout the state had carried the news that Scarlet Sister Mary was too scarlet for Gaffney. Now they carried the story that the Cherokee Times had a scarlet serial. And next-great "scoop" for the Cherokee Times!-they carried news that Scarlet Sister Mary had won the Pulitzer Prize for 1928 as best U. S. novel of the year (TIME...
Last week notes began dropping in upon the Cherokee Times-Gaffneyites cancelling their $1.50 subscriptions. But also came notes, many of them from outside of Gaffney, ordering new $1.50 subscriptions. For this week the Cherokee Times was the first of U. S. newspapers to begin publishing the year's Pulitzer novel in serial form-a feature for which big metropolitan publishers always bid handsomely...