Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...
...there are any conclusions to be drawn from these figures, other than ethical ones on the use of Scotch endowments, the duty of the tennis athlete is the clearest of these. Football toil has watered his courts, whitened his base lines and paid for his southern trip; courtesy, as one athlete to another, demands that he fatten the scholastic average of football by his presence on the squad. Double endeavor would perhaps create havoc among the statisticians; but that is a phenomenon, like the changing intelligence of a three letter man, which is overlooked in the Foundation's computations...
COQUETTE?Helen Hayes helps the audience to a good cry as the southern belle whose heart cracked for a murdered lover (TIME...
...Cage 125,000.00The Harvard Fund 242,900.15Harvard Medical School in China: "for the establishment of scholarships or fellowships to be administered by the Trustees of the Peking Union Medical College..." 47,610.94The Harvard War Memorial 189,228.00International Education Board: For construction and endowment of a Southern Astronomical Observatory Station at Bloemfontein. South Africa 180,000.00Law School Endowment 695,000.00Estate of A. F. Luke: One half for the advancement of medical and surgical science 237,081.43G. A. McKinlock and Mrs. McKinlock: Additional payment for the G. A. McKinlock Jr., Dormitory 91,087.92Estate...
...north bank of the huge Ohio River and opposite the mouth of the small Licking River that runs north through Kentucky,* was for decades the commercial gateway from the North to the South. Traders, some Jews, from Cincinnati were the first businessmen to settle in many a southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati was the Queen City...