Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) Melville E. Stone, onetime General Manager of the Associated Press, was made a Doctor of Laws (as was Abraham Lincoln before him) on the scene where, 80 years ago, his father and mother met for the first time as students...
Bradley Polytechnic Institute (Peoria, Ill.), announced Dr. F. R. Hamilton, onetime President of Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.), as successor to the chair of her late President, Dr. Theodore C. Burgess...
...most inspiring if it did take a long time. And the judges were at last able to decide that the best oration had been furnished by blond, curly-headed E. Wight Bakke, 22, of Onawa, Iowa, a junior at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). They awarded the $2,000 first prize to Bakke for saying, among other things, that the U. S. Constitution is not "an old faded parchment in the Nation's capital, but a document written on the heart of every American. It bears not 39 signatures; for each of us it is signed by but one name...
...this trail. First it led to Kirtland, Ohio. When religious competitors tarred and feathered Joseph Smith Jr., the trail led to Far West, Mo. Here loafing, slaveholding Missourians resented the presence of industrious Yankees and a singular faith, persecuted them, incarcerated Joseph Smith Jr. The trail led to Nauvoo, Ill...
...like a man overtaken by exhaustion. The referee counted ten. After the fight, Tunney glanced through a pile of congratulatory telegrams, went off to Long Island for a week-end of golfing and light revelry; Gibbons packed his suitcases, boarded a broiling train for Chicago where his wife lies ill of nervous prostration. "Now I want Dempsey!" declared Tunney in the press. Undoubtedly, if Champion William Harrison Dempsey returns to the ring, Tunney will be his opponent, for Champion Dempsey envisages little difficulty in defeating the blushing young Marine. But there is another pugilist-one whose either hand is like...