Word: southern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dwarf epithet was interesting; Tito's height of 5 feet 7½ inches (average for southern Slavs) is on record in London at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks-whence he sent it along with one of his fancy uniforms to drape his ozocerite likeness. The Literary Gazette's own Joseph Stalin in 1936 had refused to give Tussaud's any data, and they had mistakenly reconstructed...
Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith explained why so much Southern writing is so good: "It's because people there have suffered more...
...Eliot Bridge will serve as a crucial and long-needed link between the communities south of the Charles and the Concord Turnpike, between the northern and southern halves of the western section of the metropolitan district. If you have trouble getting across the Anderson Bridge to the Stadium this afternoon, remember the ageless war cry: "Wait till next year...
Aside from this, Princeton has always admitted a high number of Southern students--Nassau is often called the "most northern of southern colleges." Many of the negroes in Princeton town are descendants of slaves that 19th-century students brought to college with them. But the Southern influence isn't as strong as it used to be--even though more Princetonians straw-voted for Thurmond in the last election than for Truman...
Sumner, who says his parents have approved of the plan, is looking for a two-man crew to make the trip and share expenses. He plans to have the boat built in Japan and sail the southern route, stopping at Guam, Wake, Midway, and the Hawaiian Islands...