Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collegiate rivalry for star athletes is a long-standing custom. But today competition between colleges for just plain students is so sharp that many institutions entice even nonathletic high school graduates with pictures of girls in bathing suits, offers of tuition rebates. One Indiana college went so far as to kidnap three freshmen from another institution, make them a better offer. The freshmen accepted...
...family friend named Miss Margaret Robertson. Apparently sturdy, the Womacks had for several years proved more susceptible to injury than any family in the U. S. The slightest jolt of a bus or taxicab was enough to send a Womack sprawling. In elevators and department stores in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, the Womacks repeatedly stumbled over the smallest objects-light cords, tools, lipsticks, cigaret lighters, mousetraps, nails, pencils, or briar pipes-many of which had not been in evidence before they arrived. One Womack tripped on a bead. For the most part the Womack women did the falling...
...white eyebrows crinkled with disgust, John Nance Garner one day last week threw down the magazine he had been reading, summoned Indiana's Sherman Minton to take the chair, stalked deliberately out of the U. S. Senate. Senator Minton settled down with a copy of Many Laughs For Many Days, by Humorist Irvin S. Cobb, tried to ignore the speech being made by Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore (''The Man") Bilbo. For 27 hours and 45 minutes before Senator Bilbo arose, the Senate floor had been occupied by Louisiana's bushy-haired little Allen J. Ellender...
...Over a coast-to-coast network James Roosevelt debated the Administration's Executive Reorganization Plan with Indiana's Congressman Samuel Pettengill, defending his father against charges of "dictatorship." Said Son James: "The history of dictatorships in the modern world shows that they have not crept up inside the governments of democracies through the gradual increase of the powers of the executive branch...
Last week, while Temple was defeating Manhattan College, and Purdue and Southern Methodist were trouncing Wisconsin and Texas respectively, Stanford was playing a two-night series against Southern California (dubbed the "University of Indiana at Los Angeles" because its entire first team and four substitutes are former Indiana high-school players). In the first game Captain Hank Luisetti and his able teammate, Art Stoefen, who is a cousin of onetime Davis Cupper Lester Stoefen and No. 2 Stanford pointmaker, lived up to expectations, helped drub Southern California, 64-10-54. Next night Luisetti, suffering from an injured eye, scored only...