Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next year his first long-distance message ("What hath God wrought") flashed over a government line from the Capitol's Supreme Court chamber (now its library) in Washington to Baltimore. Last week President Hoover inaugurated the centennial of the Morse idea when he ceremoniously fingered a gold-nugget-studded telegraph key in the White House. At his touch a high speed automatic transmitter began rattling out the President's message in the Capitol library: "I am glad . . . source of pride . . . honor to his country . . . inspiration to mankind...
...where is there a Boston Nugget, where will you find, brisk, boisterous, debonair academicians clad in comfortable corduroys and sweaters? Where will you get our hill-winds and our mountain air, our Appalachian snows, and Alpine sports? With all due gratitude for hospitality received, we choose Hanover. The beer is better for one thing. And the Brahmins of Boston don't get in your hair. The Dartmouth...
...least the possibility that friendships arising out of such contacts would do much towards preventing individuals from being or becoming maladjusted, and even more towards converting the grind, the weir, the book-worm, and the recluse into normal social animals, with an interest in current events, the Nugget, Smith sub-suffragettes, and the Harvard game in addition to their intellectual concerns...
...Dutchman" mine in Superstition Mountain had been found again after 20 years. Several weeks ago more than 500 men, many jobless, were stampeded by a rumor of gold from Calgary to the bleak, cold Livingstone River Valley 100 miles away. Australia still teems with excitement over a 94-lb. nugget found two months ago. Gold-rich Africa is the scene of similar tension. And last week in San Ignacio, Mexico, one Guillermo Laveaga came out of the hills and caused a gold-rush by his tales of a place where gold is to be extracted from the rocks with hunting...
What the Yale News says concerning the old "Big Three" is true. Its application to Princeton is that, for one thing, inter-sectional games should have no place on the Tiger's schedule. The gold nugget in the H--Y--P President's Agreement of the early twenties was its ban on inter sectionalism: and the Princetonian of that day hailed the passing of cross-country rivalry "as a mark of progress." We lament its return as a mark of regress, and predict that in the far distant, but far saner future only natural rivals will do battle...