Word: oberline
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...afoot and was found dead in an eight-foot drift. In Stromsburg, Neb., Myron and Emeral Johnson bogged down in their car trying to reach a veterinarian with their sick dog. Somehow the dog staggered home but the brothers were found frozen to death in a field. Near Oberlin, Kans., an automobile aerial protruding from the snow led searchers to a suffocated motorist...
...first two years, Wild Bill didn't really expect to win anything, but this season, he confesses, he couldn't stop hoping. Wild Bill swears Tech should have won the Oberlin game. That was the weekend the whole squad got food poisoning and had to keep trotting off & on the field, compelled by a force stronger than a coach's will. Tech lost...
...known mock conventions Vandenberg has won 13-at Harvard, Washingtion & Lee, Washington University (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Marquette, Oberlin, Wooster, Case (Cleveland), Centre (Ky.), Kalamazoo, Northern Michigan College of Education, Augustana (Ill.) and Lindenwood (Mo.), Stassen was the choice at University of Pennsylvania, Miami (Ohio) and Russell Sage Dewey won at Hiram (Ohio...
...scientists changed it to aluminium to harmonize with sodium, lithium, etc. Britain still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently has a well-endowed faculty...
...tone of the day was set by Philosopher J. B. Kozak, who taught at Ohio's Oberlin College in World War II. Said Kozak, obviously not speaking for his 17 purged colleagues: "We accept the direction taken by this great development [i.e., the Communist coup]." Then President Eduard Benes gave the university a new charter to replace the one that the Germans had destroyed, and made a pathetic little speech about freedom. Outside, in the public square, amplifiers relayed the catch in Benes' voice. There were more cops than citizens in the square...