Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fires of undetermined origin broke out within the University early this week, sending local fireman to extinguish fires in Little and Sever Halls, and causing $385 in damages...
...such corn-doctors are Iowa State College's President Charles E. Friley and Professor I. E. Melhus. Firmly believing that the way to study a plant is to go back to its place of origin, they were in Guatemala recently putting the final touches to a namey venture called the Iowa State College Guatemala Tropical Research Center-a corn study station in the beautiful ghost town of Antigua. 60 miles from Guatemala City...
...Flagellations. A typical problem was the choice of priests and bishops for the large bodies of Catholic immigrants: foreign-language groups, especially the Germans, demanded a clergy of their own origin and language. A large part of the hierarchy, led by the Irish, considered this a dangerous trend. They knew that Catholicism in the U.S. labored under a widespread suspicion of being an alien creed, that the Church could prosper only by doing its utmost to Americanize the immigrants and adapting its policies to those of the young democracy...
...University Spanish Club describes Grases' new course as dealing primarily with the social, cultural, and political institutions of Spain from the origin of that country as a national entity up to the present. It is expected that during the summer term Grases will give two more advanced courses...
...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...