Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blind student of journalism in the South wants money to pay for a reader...
...Marie D. Ames Byrd (Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the north pole, is now in Antarctica preparing to fly to the south pole): "My most awful nightmare is that the world has suddenly turned star-shaped . . . and that now there are five poles to be discovered." She lives at Boston, her parents' home, or at Winchester, Va., the Byrd home, with their four children...
James Harvey Robinson, himself a famed knowledge-humanizer, significantly observes that "the word 'mind' was originally a verb, not a noun." That is, actions are older than words. Sunlight as curative, one finds elsewhere, has been used by Chinese, Egyptians, South American Indians...
...gold with a red stripe, Cadet Cagle must last week have realized two things about Army football this autumn: 1) the Army is about a week behind other teams in practice; 2) the Army has what looks like the hardest schedule of any team this year -Harvard, Yale, South Dakota, Illinois, Ohio Wesleyan, Notre Dame, Stanford...
...gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn to play well." Further, President Gil urged a contest between the University of Havana and the University of Mexico for the Championship of Latin America. Subsequently, the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., accepted the invitation of the University of Mexico to play a game on Nov. 20 dedicating the new $1,000,000 Workers' Athletic field at Mexico City. The Sewanee team, which plays Tulane in New Orleans on Nov. 16, will proceed to Mexico City by rail...