Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily papers to the more important topics of current events. Once more Mr. Hoover and the stock market have received due prominence on the front page; and the gestures of the Fascistic are no longer overshadowed by startling gridiron predictions. On the other hand, this is a period of unwarranted speculation on the part of sports writers. To fill their depicted columns, they fabricate grotesque stories of judicious phenomena; pictures of superhuman undertakings receive the appropriate comment of. "Believe it or not." A variety of topics, which represent at best a fertile imagination and laborious study, are thus glossed sufficiently...
...minor places on the Board through competitions made more just by prolongation. Editorial candidates may try their hands at a greater variety of topics than has been allowed them, and the business department will be freed from the breathlessness of lining up advertisements in a limited period. Another burden is taken from the Red Book Board this year by the decision of the Dean's Office to photograph every member of the entering class. These pictures will go into the Red Book in a body...
...goal is the only starting player who did not win his letter last year, but he was on the squad throughout the season. Coach Stubbs, however, is still uncertain as to who is his outstanding goal tender, and he stated yesterday that he will use Elkins in the first period. H. H. Newell '29 in the second period and O. P. Jackson '29 in the third...
...most powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains that now creep slowly onward with the aid of two engines...
...Herald. In this capacity he earned $5 a week. Making the not un common progression from newspaper to secretarial work, he became secretary t6 Edward Marshall, the Herald's foreign correspondent. He was also secretary to William Dinwiddie, Herald war correspondent during the Spanish-American war. After a period of reporting, for the Washington Times, Mr. Brown got into organization work with public utilities...