Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here Freshmen eat and make the time-worn jokes about the stuffed animal heads on the wall and the daily menu. Here they spend hours in the pool-room downstairs. And here in May they dance at the Jubilee, last organized class affair before Senior year and Commencement...
...Washington last week, the senior officer of the U. S. was Charles Edison, Acting Secretary of the Navy. Every one above him was out of town. But more importantly active than Mr. Edison in Franklin Roosevelt's absence was Mrs. President Roosevelt, who went to bat cleverly in her column to defend an act of her husband's which had stirred the country to its grass roots: shifting Thanksgiving Day from the last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the next-to-last (TIME...
...Olympics, the No. 1 hero was Negro Jesse Owens of Cleveland, winner of the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and broad jump. Last week it appeared that the 1940 Olympic hero would be another midwestern U. S. Negro, 190-lb. William Delouis Watson, University of Michigan senior. In last week's meet at White City, rangy Bill Watson scored 13 of the 54 U. S. points: first in the shot put (with a record-breaking heave of 52 ft. 8 in.), first in the broad jump (24 ft. 6 in.) and third in the discus...
...become. Suddenly from Victoria Stables rang a most un-British sound: a revolver shot, then another. White-faced, a clerk ran to the street shouting: "Something terrible has happened." To a hospital in Aberdeen went Board Secretary William Macintosh, shot in the head, and Director Bailie W. McDougall Gordon, senior magistrate of Peterhead, shot in the leg. To jail went gun-toting Board Chairman Anderson...
Ashurst has been senior Senator from Arizona since its Statehood. He likes to hear himself called "the silver-tongued sunbeam of Painted Desert." His favorite anecdote surrounds his biggest moment: the day in 1912 when a Senate expecting to see an Arizona Senator sworn in wearing cowboy chaps, high-heeled boots and bandanna, was dazzled at the resplendent perfection of a tall gentleman impeccably garbed in sugar-scoop coat, striped trousers, wing collar, sawed-off vest and ribboned pince-nez. "I mowed them down," chuckles Ashurst...