Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 29, 1935). Last fortnight Crowell announced that this year's $200 prize had fallen to Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, whose farm home is nine miles from Blue Earth, Minn., in recognition of her column, With a Penny Pencil, which runs once a week in the Fairmont (Minn.) Sentinel...
...natures he held in his younger days, Mr. Frost said: "I was at Dartmouth for a while, and during the five years between that and the time I entered Harvard I did all kinds of work imaginable-factory hand, cobbler, mill worker, reporter and editor on the Lawrence, Mass., "Sentinel". A lot of these fellows who rave about the troubles of the "working class" probably never saw the inside of a mill in their lives...
Died. Lucius William Nieman, 77, editor-proprietor of the Milwaukee Journal; after long illness; in Milwaukee. Managing editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel before he was 21, he bought the Journal in 1882, put it on the streets as Wisconsin's first 2? daily. He introduced the first linotype to Milwaukee, scooped his rivals by using carrier pigeons in covering local events (see p. 42). His paper won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for its campaign against German propaganda. Once a bitter foe of big business, Publisher Nieman mellowed as his paper grew rich (1929 profits: $1.600.000). finally became an opponent...
...into their greenhouses will wither their sturdiest blooms. Director Crocker noted that tomato plants are so sensitive that they will droop in the presence of one part of gas to 100,000 of air. He advised growers to keep a tomato plant in their greenhouses to serve as a sentinel, give warning of gas in time to save the flowers...
...this time the Confederacy was a forlorn hope. Morgan's raids were no longer either so daring or so successful. A raid into eastern Tennessee was his last. One rainy morning the house was surrounded by blue troopers; no sentinel had given the alarm. While rifles popped, Morgan dashed out through the garden, dropped dead. At his funeral in Richmond the military escort had to abandon the procession, double-time off toward the threatened defenses...