Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In your interesting account of the origin of the song "Casey Jones" . . . you credit "Wallace Saunders, a Negro engine wiper" with originating a "homemade song" about Jones...
...issue of the Press's No. 1 tradepaper but a glittering, gilt-coated volume of 320 pages. The legend on the cover told the story: GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER-1884-1934. Backward through a series of competitors which it had absorbed during half a century, Editor & Publisher traced its origin to a 12-page sheetlet called The Journalist...
...culture battle) - and beat him. Origin of that struggle was the German hierarchy's demand that members of the schismatic "Old Catholic" sect be removed as teachers in state schools. Distrusting ecclesiastical interference in state affairs, the "Iron Chancellor" not only refused the demand but approved a series of "May Laws" to crush the Church. Payment of clerical salaries by the state was dis continued, church property confiscated, religious orders expelled from Germany. Many a priest and bishop who defied these laws was fined and jailed. Net effect was to embitter Germany's Catholic population, increase the strength...
...tissue artfully mutilated. The pectoral fins can be cut away from the head and moulded into a headdress resembling a bishop's mitre. The ventral fins can be distorted to resemble feet. Neither Dr. Gudger nor an Australian colleague investigating the same subject could learn the origin of the term "Jenny Haniver" which appears in no standard dictionary...
...railroads of the United States and Canada are again offering "College Special round-trips to students for the school year 2934-35 between home stations as a point of origin and the school stations that serve educational institutions. The special fare will be one and one-third of one-way fare...