Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, Drs. W. T. Sumerford and Eugene P. Odum of the University of Georgia reported on DPE, a DDT relative with fewer chlorine atoms in its molecule. Sprayed on water, it kills the unwanted mosquito larvae without killing fish...
...people of the North, from Abraham Lincoln down, knew him as Little Aleck, devoted champion of states' rights and the constitutional liberties of all men-except Negroes. To the South he was Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia, Vice President and chief enigma of the Confederacy...
...political career. Not the least extraordinary fact in Stephens' life is that, having accepted the post of Confederate Vice President, he gave only lukewarm support to the Government. When his own ideas of states' rights and constitutional liberty were infringed by the Confederate Congress, he sulked in Georgia, refused even to go to Richmond. By 1864 he had become so embittered that he began to talk outright treason: a separate peace with the North...
...talking about. Only one, Coach Jess Neely of Rice, conceded that "the General might be right." The black market in footballers was so open that officials from 200 colleges who recently met in Chicago to consider and perhaps deplore it got nowhere. Down in the Southeastern Conference (Mississippi State, Georgia Tech, etc.), where so-called "grants-in-aid" to players are legal, hijacking of players from the two service academies was made not only legal but attractive. Though college football players are usually allowed only three years of varsity play, the Conference decided not to count the years...
Ever since he got back from his 25-day immersion in Russia (TIME, Aug. 26) garrulous, sandy-haired Louie D. Newton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, had been sounding off to the press. Some of his Georgia neighbors thought he had come back sounding like a Red. To others he was just the same old Louie...