Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pomona's first neighbor college was founded-Scripps College for Women. This will open next autumn. Up and down the Pacific coast go praise and thanksgiving for the woman who gave the money, Miss Ellen B. Scripps of La Jolla, Calif., "most beloved woman in Southern California...
...Significance. Easy-going foreigners wondered vaguely, "Why all this fuss about the Tyrolese? Aren't they the people who wear those funny little hats?" To such paragons of unconcern an embittered Tyrolese might have answered as follows: "We of the Southern Tyrol have no great love for either the pan-Italians or the pan-Germans. Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among...
...poorly paid, as are those in general of every creed and religion. Their pastors must work, and willingly, in professions and trades. But their calloused fingers can gently, reverently turn the Bible's pages. Of their donations: "The Northern Baptists seem to be just as stingy [as the Southern...
...been made yet. This trip, to take in only three days, will mark a big step forward in the progress of the club, as it will be the first time that two visits have been made to foreign territory for more than a day in the same college year! Southern trips were made in Easter of last year, and in the recent Christmas holidays...
...them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than 1,000 miles the 12,447 miles of the Southern Pacific System. The combined assets will total $875,000,000. The merger also will put the two banking houses on a peerage as really great railroad bankers with J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. But the Interstate Commerce Commission must approve such a merger.* The Frisco has two principal...