Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete roster of the track team for the southern trip was announced last night by Coach Farrell. Several of the men were picked last week but the final selections were not made until yesterday. The squad is now composed of 28 athletes, with whom three coaches and two managers will journey southward during the vacation...
After the session, Ogden Mills haughtily avoided southern Democrats. But Speaker Longworth jokingly remarked: "This man Rankin knew how to get a quorum; starting a fight is the best way to fill the House...
...Leland Stanford they stood up and cheered Bud Houser. Mr. Houser hails from the University of Southern California, a rival musnud of learning. None the less, he heaved a discus 158 ft. 1% in. last week. That was 11% in. farther than a discus had ever been hurled. Therefore Stanfordites cheered him well...
...know practically nothing about the Indians whose pueblo towns we are excavating. In the northern part of the state there are living descendants of the ancient tribes, but the southern peoples have apparently passed out of existence entirely. From what we have been able to glean of their life, it appears that they were chiefly agriculturists, instead of wandering hunters like most of their contemporary aborigines...
...with its great side-wheelers and niggers and roustabouts and plenitude of suckers has produced its own school of chroniclers. By the works of its sons do we know it. And faro and monte are not unknown mysteries even in the modern and effete east; we have met the southern planter and the river boat gambler before, and still do we, their unworthy descendants, endeavor to fill on kings or bluff a bobtailed flush...