Word: linne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHEN James T. Farrell studied at the University of Chicago in 1923 he used to hand in thousand words in an almost illegible longhand to Prof. Jim Weber Linn. Desciphering difficult under graduate handwriting is tiresome, but the professor read young Farrell's stuff with great interest. To the black haired Irish kid from Chicago's Blue Island Avenue, he gave encouragement, out of which ultimately came four grim, first-class novels of life on Chicago's South Side. The fourth, A World I Never Made, has just been published. The world James Farrell has lived in for 31 years...
...Port Orford, Ore. Frank B. Tichenor bought a railroad ticket to the Linn County Fair at Albany, Ore. in 1881, did not go. Last week he sent the ticket to Albany's mayor, asked for a refund...
Protestantism is "running downhill" (TIME, May 11). Well informed as he is, the new Congregational moderator was doubtless aware last week that in the July Christian Herald would appear the annual church statistics prepared by Dr. George Linn Kieffer; that these show an increase for all U. S. religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away...
Amherst was the favored college in the meet, but dropping the ten-mile race hurt Harvard's chances. The six men who represented Harvard are: Cummings, Davis, Nelson, who placed, and John H. Bartol '36, Linn Bollinger 1G.B., Ignatius Sargent '37, and George Fox '37, who was favored to win the race...
...pilots from Harvard are Cummings, John H. Bartol '36, Linn Bollinger 1GB, flying Fleets; Ignatius Sargent '37, flying a Mono Coupe; Fox, flying a Walker Cabin; and Nelson, with a Fairchild...