Word: olin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Boxer John Henry Lewis: a technical knockout over Bob Olin, after flooring him for a count of seven in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout, in St. Louis; thus retaining the world's light-heavyweight title he won from Olin...
When J. (for James) Rion McKissick graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1905, he was voted not only the biggest eater and best writer but the most accomplished orator in his class. Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin D. Johnston and a deputation of State officials gathered in the University's field house to inaugurate Alumnus McKissick, who had worked up from the editorship of the Greenville Piedmont through the deanship of the University's school of journalism, as the University's 19th president. Big, baldish Orator McKissick lived up to his undergraduate...
...employed by the State Board of Equalization, married and with one child, had walked into McCracken's kitchen where McCracken, 36, married, was eating supper with two girls, Miss Donna Cornell, 27, who assisted him in publishing his mimeographed Modoc County Daily Mail, and a friend, Miss Evelyn Olin, 27. McCracken's wife, a nurse, was at work at the Alturas General Hospital...
...Lawrence Gilman: "It has much of his familiar quality-his blend of sombre brooding and lyrical expansiveness and defiant gaiety. But the eminent Russian has said most of it before, in substance, and has said it with more weight and felicity and salience." The Times's Olin Downes proposed: "Would not a pair of shears benefit the proportions of this work...
Conductor Barbirolli earned better marks, and easily passed his New York entrance examination with a suave Mozart symphony and a heroic Brahms Fourth, wherein New York Times Critic Olin Downes discovered "virility, grip, lyrical opulence, and on occasion the impact of the bear's paw." Said the New York Herald Tribune's, Lawrence Oilman: "He has disclosed himself as a musician of taste and fire and intensity, electric, vital, sensitive, dynamic, experienced; as an artist who knows his way among the scores he elects to set before us, who has mastered not only his temperament but his trade...