Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conceive of its size. It takes as long by train to travel from the Panhandle on the north to Brownsville on the south as it does to go from New York to Key West. Leader Garner gave his own figures: "Texas would make 220 States the size of Rhode Island, 54 the size of Connecticut, six the size of New York. Texas is four times bigger than the combined New England States. . . . With an estimated population of 5,600,000 Texas ranks fifth among the States, being exceeded only by New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio. ..." Such a split...
Yesterday afternoon at the Rhode Island Country Club, the Harvard University golf team defeated Brown, 6 to 3. At the same time, the Harvard Freshmen were defeated by the Yale first year team...
This afternoon both the University and Freshman golfers will journey to the Rhode Island Country Club, where the former will meet Brown, and the first year team will conclude its season against the Yale 1933 squad...
Tomorrow afternoon both teams will journey to the Rhode Island Country Club, where the University squad will oppose Brown, and the Freshmen will conclude their season against Yale 1933. The first year men have had a fairly successful season, losing, 5 to 4 to Andover, tieing with Dartmouth, 3 to 3, and winning from Bryant and Stratton...
...curious election was held last week in Chicago. It was preceded by no oratory, either to praise, defame or nominate a candidate. There were, officially, no candidates. Nonetheless Rt. Rev. Dr. James De Wolf Perry, Bishop of Rhode Island, was elected presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S., became thereby the U. S. analog to Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury...