Word: philadelphianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loomis in the finals, 6-0, 6-3, 6-1. The winner, who is National indoor Junior Champion and comes from Philadelphia, had no trouble in defeating the Loomis expert, who won the title last year while a student at Newton High. The back court game of the Philadelphian was particularly brilliant and he seemed able to make his point almost at will...
...Author. William Christian Bullitt is a 35-year-old Philadelphian who, after a brilliant career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor...
...Philadelphians laid out 25? and purchased The Philadelphian. Opening this new monthly, a Philadelphianization of the weekly New Yorker, they discovered a description of the magazine by its editors which gave cause for alarm: "An entertainment . . . just a big, good-natured thurible...
Whatever son of Harvard reads the condemnation of these noisy times by that wit and critic, essayist and Philadelphian, Agnes Repplier, will remember the hammers that are building the new Fogg Museum and which are heard between words of some lecture in Emerson or Sever, and readily agree. "Noise", says Miss Repplier, "is savage. It is time that scientists were concerned with some means of collecting sound, carrying it away somewhere and dumping it. We need, not an invention to reproduce or carry sound, but one to eliminate it." And there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor...
...place this fall. Just before the close of the National League season two members of the New York Giants were accused of offering a bribe to a member of the Philadelphia nine to "throw" a game which would have automatically given the Giants the pennant of their league. The Philadelphian refused and reported the offered bribe. But the Giants won the pennant nonetheless. Judge Landis expelled the two players after a cursory investigation of the charges against them...