Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jackson. Tenn.. a small chunk of ice whisked from a fruit express, cut off Edward Smith's nose...
Cumberland University (Lebanon, Tenn.) Charles Joseph Turck, president of Centre College, Kentucky LL.D...
Chattanooga, Tenn...
...astronomy, and chemistry he knows but does not care for. Many offers came in. Last week this Modern Major General made his choice: not to bother with matters mathematical but to return to his native state, head the military department of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. General Smith went to West Point in 1928 as superintendent, found it "in excellent shape academically," but not so good for training soldiers. He made extensive plans to enlarge it but most of these he turns over, as yet unconsummated, to his successor Major General William Dunward Connor. General Smith planned...
Apart from his medical work, he is a naturalist of repute. A favorite apothegm: "I love to study nature because I find on all her open pages the signature of the Creator, my Father." An Episcopalian, he last year accepted a trusteeship in William Jennings Bryan University at Dayton, Tenn., because like the Great Commoner he is "a thoroughgoing believer in the special creation of Man." He also advocates Prohibition. He once took a five-foot grey & yellow king snake before a Congressional Committee to startle them into approving the creation of Everglades National Park at the southwest...