Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the campus of Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss, stands a monument inscribed: "Aaron Burr tried . . . under these oaks, 1807; Andrew Jackson camped here, 1812-1815; Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past...
But the foundation was not enough for the judge. When he heard that Jefferson Military College was just about destitute, he offered to turn over the income of his oil-spouting lands. It was a handsome gift -somewhere between $5,000,000 and $50 million-but it was tied with...
In the midst of the storm, Jefferson refused the judge's conditions. Although "the college has even been maintained and operated exclusively for students of the white race," it would not accept the endowment, said its trustees, if it had to teach the superiority of Anglo-Saxon and Latin...
Playing on a tile-floored court and using a ponderous outdoor-style basketball with outside seams, a picked Argentine five followed Don Sensato's advice. They used the bounce pass almost exclusively, scooted under and around the Oklahomans who were runners-up for the A.A.U. championship last year, actually...
* "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so."-Genesis 1:9.