Word: oned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...One day in 1906 President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University made what he called a "heretical" proposal to bis trustees: abolish the campus eating clubs which for a quarter of a century had flourished proudly along Prospect Avenue. They were contrary to the "democratic spirit," said Wilson; they had become a "side show" which seemed "to be trying to control the performance in the main tent...
Behind the banquet table in St. Louis' Sheraton Hotel one night last week, a round-faced man sat beaming at the dozens of guests who had come to honor him. He was a man that a whole generation of schoolchildren should have known, for Waldo P. Johnson had revolutionized the spelling book...
Before he began his revolution, just 25 years ago, "W.P." was school superintendent of Fornfelt, Mo. (pop. 1,200). Then one day he heard that the school board was considering somebody else for the job. Face to face with politics, Waldo Johnson resigned...
...least one observer thought the whole question was academic. The day after the Louis-Valentino exhibition, Manager Tex Sullivan withdrew his fighter, Lee Oma, from a scheduled ten-round match with Louis in Detroit. Complained Sullivan: "Those aren't exhibitions, they're real wars . . . Louis isn't planning a comeback, he's already back...
Under the new setup there will be one 13-team organization, the National-American Football League, with Bell as commissioner. All ten of the former National League teams will be in the new league. Of the All-America's seven teams, three-the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Colts and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the new group; three more-the Buffalo Bills, the Los Angeles Dons and the Brooklyn-New York Yankees-will each merge with one or another of the 13 survivors. The players of the remaining team, the Chicago Hornets, will go into a common league pool...