Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course there is Borah, the Southern California flash, who may rise to any heights if he is fit." Coach Farrell Yold a CRIMSON representative in the first of a series of discussions on the Intercollegiates. But the rest of the field, while it is far from slow, is hardly in Borah's class...
...Southern California has another fast man and Stanford also can boast of at least one sprinter who has broken ten seconds, but I look to the East to furnish Borah's opposition or at least to supply the other scores in the short events...
Last week was Smith Week among the Democrats. East coast, West coast, all around the land, the Smith candidacy seemed to have reached a new high-tide line. In Washington, a Southern Senator who would not permit his name to be quoted because he and his State have been thoroughly anti-Smith, said: "Smith already is nominated." Other Washington politicos were discussing, not the probability of the nomination but its manner. Perhaps, they said, it could be managed by acclamation, which would be a very good thing for the chances of the Democracy in November, the precise reverse of much...
...steamy morning mist lay on the roads. The French peasants, for that is what they are, trudged to work. But for the trailing moss on the live-oaks it was like a southern province at home, in real France. The men doffed their hats, whether or not they knew who it was that rode in the so beautiful automobile, The women answered questions volubly and swiftly appraised Mademoiselle's beauty of which they all spoke afterwards. At Napoleonville she made them catch their breaths when she laid her freshest bouquet at the base of a new memorial inscribed...
...South China Nanking Government sent its main offensive thrusting up through Shantung against the North China Peking Government. In collaboration as commanders of the Southern armies were the great marshals Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. They concentrated last week upon capturing Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which was defended by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a subordinate of the great Peking dictator, Marshal Chang...