Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family to meet me.'' "But your son is on one of these boats." "My son is here? Where?" The old man rushed to the rail. Suddenly he spied the figure of a short bespectacled young man on the cutter Hudson below. "Oh, Junior! Junior!" he cried. "Hello, pop. How are you doing?" came the robust-voiced reply. Thus the Samuel Insulls met last week for the first time since they parted nearly two years ago in Milan. As the younger man climbed up the ship's side, his father rushed forward, embraced him. Senior Insull, trembling with...
...paper, the News. While the Mail Tribune got the Pulitzer Prize, the News's editor was serving a life sentence in prison. Nestled in the floor of Southern Oregon's lush Rogue River valley, famed for its pears and apples, Medford was a thriving, peace-loving town (pop.: 11,000), loyal to its Chamber of Commerce and American Legion, until Llewellyn A. Banks arrived from Riverside, Calif, in 1925. With him he brought his second wife, two new Cadillacs, 40 suits of custom-made clothes, and a million dollars netted from the sale of citrus orchards in Southern...
Four pages, battering with the ineffectiveness of pop pistols against the stury fortress of Namur, represent the hysterical attempt of our brethren to shake off the "irons of serfdom". Using for a criterion the old Harvard Herald which subsided into silence in 1883, the prevailing tone of the issue represents not only the spirit of a by-gone era but also the general effect of a much used trick...
...wreck the Indian Reform Bill, Tory Churchill was counting heavily on the report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce relative to British exports of cotton to the Far East and the menace of Japanese rivalry. The report when it finally broke "turned out to be only a feeble pop...
University of Maine is tucked away 68 mi. up the Penobscot River at rustic Orono (pop.: 3,400), eight miles above Bangor. It started out in 1868 with twelve students and two teachers as a State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts. By 1897 the school had added a college of arts & sciences and was ready to call itself a university. A College of Law founded in 1898 expired in 1920. A School of Education was launched in 1930. Maine's chief distinction is still in its College of Agriculture & Forestry and a College of Technology which Maine men like...