Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position in the intercollegiate world must be clearly understood, and it is a peculiar position that has grown up from the fact that Harvard, together with a small clique in the east that includes Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania, were the pioneers in intercollegiate athletics. These schools were the oldest in the country and they were the first to establish athletics on a plane in any way comparable to the present highly organized system of university sports...
...parochial bystander to name you a newspaper in Galveston, St. Louis, Butte, Jacksonville or either Portland. His face will go blank. Ask him to name you one in Omaha and out will buzz: "The Bee." One of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi, the Bee has stung itself into the U. S. folk-consciousness not only by its bumbling name but by appropriate industry. That its industry might reap greater rewards, it last week (in the person of Publisher Nelson B. Updike) bought out and absorbed its chief competitor, the Omaha Daily News, 28-year-old member...
Died. William Maxwell, 88, "oldest convict in the world"; in the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun. Fifty-five years ago, aged 33, he defended a woman's good name by killing a dance-hall roisterer. Other roisterers, irate, hung Mr. Maxwell to a tall tree. Forthwith, a sheriff arrived, cut him down, took him to jail. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; refused several offers of parole...
Died. John ("Uncle Johnny") Demarest, 98, member of "the oldest married couple in the world"; at Wyckoff, N. J., following gangrene in his right leg. Two years ago the couple celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary, when more than 1,000 neighbors and friends visited them, and President Coolidge wrote them a letter...
Sirs: Of course, I thought that some subscriber would object to the statement made in TIME, Jan. 10, that San Augustine, Tex., is the second oldest city in the United States. That honor happily falls to San Antonio, Tex., where the sunshine spends the winter...