Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lettermen and two Sophomores in the lineup, the team should well be able to hold its own this year. FRESHMEN TABOR Robey, g. g., Brooks Sargent, l.f.b. l.f.b., Smith Powell, r.f.b. r.f.b., Barnes von Stade, l.h.b. l.h.b., Sailor Robie, c.h.b. c.h.b., Davis Shirley, r.h.b. r.h.b., Little Tyler, l.o.f. l.o.f., Ma Sleeper, l.i.f. l.i.f., McPherson Simpson, c.f. c.f., Clouter Davis, r.i.f. r.i.f., Burroughs Rowley, r.o.f. r.o.f., Holton...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Thorndike is famed for researches in industrial, educational and animal psychology, is reputed to make use of everyone he encounters as research material. Dr. Thorndike found that his numerous subjects, asked to judge by sound alone, preferred such words as harmony, ma donna, resolute, serene, swan to such others as belch, waddle, stink and wart. But when the human sounding-boards were confronted with nonsense words there was no marked preference...
Running away from the police with a bullet in his arm, Lucky Wilson comes upon Pa Miller (Whitford Kane), a pros perous hay and chicken farmer, living in a saltbox house by Cedric Gibbons. The Miller family?Pa, Ma, Pauline (O'Sulli van), who teaches school, and her little brother Willie?do their best to make Lucky feel at home. Willie shows him the rabbits. Pauline takes him cherry picking. Says she : "You have to whistle when you're picking cherries to show that you're not eating any." When the detectives finally catch up with Lucky Wilson...
...Texas has persistently produced more than its Federal quota. In that hottest spot on the oil map, "hot oil" has been a fighting word for years. Last week, the Texas Railroad Commission was still impotent to stop "hot oil." This week the State of Texas, led by Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, will get busy with a special session of its Legislature to see what can be done...
...ballot in November. Ten years ago Texas gave the country a neat political trick whereby such legal difficulties could be sidestepped and the Governorship kept in the family. First to use it was James Ferguson who, following his impeachment and removal from office, put up his wife Miriam ("Ma") in his stead. Last week Mr. Langer decided to follow this pattern when he resigned his nomination and had the Republican State Central Committee, packed with his partisans, nominate his better, unfelonious half...