Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.)-triumph. A fortnight ago, her pride, her young Demosthenes, her handsome Maurice ("Red") Robinson journeyed to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) with his elocution coach, Professor W. N. Brigance, for the National Contest of the Interstate Oratorical Association, for which he had qualified by winning the Indiana state contest (TIME, March 1). Other doughty state champions were there at Evanston: a forceful South Dakotan with an oration on prohibition; a West Virginian propounding that "Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier...
...glacial times, when the ice sheet still blocked the Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys, there were two southerly outlets to the Great Lakes system, the present Wabash and Desplaines-Illinois valleys, both leading to the Mississippi. The latter ultimately robbed the former and a vast river, called Warren River after the engineer who traced its old scourway, carried the entire system's outlet. The Chicago canal follows that scourway, deepened but a few feet. There was, in the Warren River's day, a "Lake Chicago" spreading out over the present state of Michigan ; Huron, Erie and Ontario were a "Lake...
...Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.) points with pride to Maurice G. ("Red") Robinson. He plays football. He vaults with the pole, having bested all comers at the state track meet. He commands the Wabash basketball team, having been "almost unanimous" choice of sport-writers for All-Western forward last year. Last fortnight he trod in the footsteps of Wabash's president, Dr. G. L. Mackintosh, of Indiana's onetime U. S. senator, A. J. Beveridge, to the rostrum of the Indiana Oratorial Contest, and like them won it. That earned him the right to proceed, as Indiana...
Washington that Chicago is to have a new hotel, a $5,000,000 structure with 2,000 rooms, 25 stories high; down the block and across the street from The Blackstone, at the corner of Seventh St. and Wabash Ave.; and to be named The Coolidge. The President did not comment, but ardent Republicans felt it was an appropriate honor. The hotel is designed by its builders to be a moneymaker, not over-eloborate...
...Nina Barbour from sweatshop to stage within ten days. He engaged two actresses (whose publicity he handled) to halt their car, as if with motor trouble, before a dingy building on the Bowery. As pre-arranged, a sweet voice sounded from a window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away to a consequent theatre contract. Again, Mr. Reichenbach brought success as a screen play...