Word: herring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America may well benefit from Mr. Siepmann's visit. In the opinion of many scholars, including Harvard's Professor Herring, the United States are far behind Britain in radio adult education. Commercialism, of course, is the fundamental evil as far as this is concerned. Pioneers are the British Broadcasting Corporation and its distinguished director of program planning...
...been taking an active part in backing and formulating a program for the Conference. Serving as Faculty chairman is Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, and assisting him are Professors Gordon. W. Allport, Kirtley F. Mather, Arthur N. Holcombe, Rupert Emerson; and Assistant Professors. Payson S. Wild, E. Pendleton Herring and Merle Fainsod...
Prohibition, an experiment noble in purpose, was about to begin. Midnight on Jan. 16, 1920, it went into effect. Five months later, guns barked and drilled plump Diamond Jim Colosimo dead as a herring in his own restaurant. The murder was a clue to the sudden bustle in the underworld. Colosimo, owner of brothels, had tried to bite off too much of the new business in illicit booze. That killing set the pattern for many more...
Fortnight ago, in the fourth play of the game against Brown, Don Herring, big Princeton tackle, son of one of Princeton's football immortals, was badly hurt. A Brown blocker crashed into him, and his left knee snapped backward so violently the main blood vessel was torn. For six days doctors did what they could, finally told him they would have to amputate his leg just above the knee. "O. K.," said Don Herring, "go ahead." Next day he listened to the play-by-play account of the game in which his teammates nosed out Harvard...
...first weekend jaunt to New York in six years starting immediately after Thursday's rally, the band performed in Palmer Stadium after one hour of practice, opening its program by spelling "Hello Nassau" and "Herring...