Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crooks Brothers. In Ottawa, guards from the Manitoba Penitentiary complained to a civil service association convention that they had to wear uniforms made by the prisoners, whose intent was "to make the officers look as ridiculous as possible...
Gordon himself came accidentally into book-selling on Harvard Square. In 1922, he left a potato inspector job in Manitoba to study first landscape architecture, then English literature at the Graduate School. He was more interested in reading than exams, however, and bought so many books that he had to rent a room for them. Much of the present collection is new, but a few books survive from his days in Divinity Hall. "Twenty-eight hundred books," he says, explaining the shop. "I had to do something with them. I sold one just the other week. This fellow came...
Young President. Educated at Halifax's Dalhousie University and the Harvard Law School, Smith taught law at Dalhousie, at 37 became Canada's youngest university president (University of Manitoba), has headed the University of Toronto since 1945. There he got a reputation for phrasemaking and outspoken intolerance of parents who send their children to college "just to prove there's nothing wrong with them." He told incoming students: "If you have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker...
...that they soon may choose to leave it: the land hunger of a burgeoning population, and an unshakable determination to live according to their own bleak code. After World War I, the Canadian government set out to homogenize its alien population groups, and the Mennonite settlements in Saskatchewan and Manitoba were told that their children would have to attend Canadian schools. Stubbornly refusing to obey, the German-speaking Mennonites, relatives of the plain folk of Pennsylvania and direct, inbred descendants of the Germanic fishermen who migrated from the Frisian Islands 400 years ago, began to search for a new homeland...
...champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...