Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tales of the Yukon, Osage City was on its feet; his family no longer needed him. From time to time he disappeared; Sabra, industrious, civic-minded, became the town's solid first citizen, Yancey its stirring legend. Hard-drinking, straight-shooting, impulsive, un- reliable, Yancey had wanted to build Utopia on the Oklahoma prairie: the women were too much for him. What came was not Utopia but civilization: women's clubs, department stores. Yancey's spectacular end was like him: at a crisis he appeared suddenly from nowhere, did the prodigious thing, saved hundreds of lives, died with a quotation...
...their logical fulfillment, it will become absolutely necessary to create an athletic endowment. This is the logical solution for many of the chief evils now found with college athletics--the over-emphasis of football, the Big Business of intercollegiate sports. It is prerequisite with President Lowell's athletic Utopia of one intercollegiate contest a year in each sport. But the necessity for money for an athletic endowment is one to be borne in mind for the future. It is not a vital need of the present...