Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tenn.) Journal. Abetted by Rogers Caldwell, Nashville capitalist, Col. Lea is looked upon as a special strongman in journalism and politics of the middle south. His papers: Nashville Tennesseean (morning and evening), Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis Evening Appeal, Atlanta Constitution* Knoxville Journal. He tried to buy the Kansas City Star, but his $12,000,000 bid was rejected...
...learned world knew versatile Dr. Michelson as the first man who ever computed the size of a star, as winner of the Nobel Prize in physics (1907), as the man who fixed the standard length of a metre bar in terms of the wave length of cadmiun light. It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama...
...Garrison '31, first year star playing on the offense, will not be on the ice today, as he contracted a serious injury in a recent scrimmage with the University six. The first year men playing are P. A. Watts l.w.; Sumner Putnam, c.; F. M. Pruyn, r.w.; S. L. Batchelder, r.d.; W. A. Richardson, l.d.; and M. G. Gammack...
...sang serious patriotic songs in a gravely irreverent manner. She did many unusual things with her eyes, voice, hands and strange, straight face which sometimes re minds one of Buster Keaton at his best. She played another Chariot show, and ever since some one has been trying to star her in a musical show all her own. Again the attempt is incomplete. It is every body's fault but Miss Lillie's. It is chiefly the fault of the men who wrote the jokes. Too often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial...
...take the 400 metre race, America will have to produce runners capable of beating such star performers as Buchner and Peltzer of Germany and Lowe of England. Coach Farrell said. All three have done at least 49 seconds in the event and with Martin of Switzerland and Engdohl of Sweden, present a lineup with great possibilities. America however, is fortified with about ten men of nearly equal merit, but probably led by Alderman of Michigan Agrucltural College. Several of the other men who have beaten 49 seconds for the 440 yard distance, he pointed out, are Barbuti of Syracuse, Swope...