Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waco (Tex.) Cotton Fair last week went a Connecticut Yankee, Charles J. Luce of Niantic, with a contraption which, like the contraption of another Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney, helped the southern cotton grower...
...Georgian period in Southern football retained ascendancy: Georgia Tech torturing North Carolina 13-0; Georgia burning Auburn 33-3. At Richmond spectators eyes were glued on Al Barnes, Virginia Military Institute halfback as he crashed 21 yards through University of Maryland. There was another crash. Through a great ragged hole in the massed audience a section of the wooden stands disappeared. Players, horrified, forgot the game; rushed over to assist the rescue. Four score persons were injured; over a dozen seriously...
Down in the hills of Southern Indiana the student body of Indiana University is eagerly looking forward to its first intersectional football game in several years, the clash with Harvard University on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon, and the chance to bring the scalp of John Harvard back to Bloomington, where you may be sure it has a large and prominent place in the trophy room awaiting...
...Southern California took a live pig to Palo Alto. The pig has been blessed by Cinemactress Marion Davies, and presented to Captain Drury of Southern California as a mascot. Drury played a small part in Miss Davies' latest cinema The Fair Coed. He played a large part in California's clash with Stanford; plunging 41 times for an average of 4 yards per plunge. California scored 13. Badly outplayed, Stanford gave Fleish-hacker the ball for seven successive hacks; stole a touchdown in the dying seconds of the last period; tied the game. The pig pouted...
...south. Said he: "Those who have not followed the situation closely are compelled to recognize today-with distinct surprise, perhaps-that agriculture is . no longer the dominant activity of the South. Manufacture has outstripped it and the value of mineral products is high. . . . Mississippi and Arkansas alone among the southern states show a higher value for farm products than for manufactures and minerals...