Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Rupp played on one of Phog Allen's first Kansas teams in the early 20s...
...report for examination. Many physically fit draftees had escaped active service for the time being by going off to college, and some were trying to rivet down their exemptions by specializing in science. As a result, draft boards had smaller pools to draw from. Most men in their 20s who had no previous war service were the culls of World War II draft lists. And the new draft eligibles - the 19-year-olds - were children of Depression years when the birth rate fell...
...Thomas. It appeared that Sir Thomas had been a prodigious troublemaker in his day, had tried to ambush the Duke of Buckingham, had broken into the home of one Hugh Smyth and raped his wife Joan, had extorted 100s, from a Margaret Kyng and a William Hales and 20s. from a John Mylner, had broken into Hugh Smyth's place and raped Joan again, had gone to Leicestershire and there stolen "seven cows, two calves, a cart worth ?4, and 335 sheep." Sir Thomas, it appeared from the records, had also twice looted the Cistercian Abbey of Blessed Mary...
...road had something more substantial than an anniversary to celebrate. The Milwaukee Road, long one of the nation's sickest, was looking healthy again. It had suffered many ills Topheavy operating costs, plus the farm depression in the '20s, forced it into bankruptcy in 1925 in the midst of a U.S. boom. It went through two reorganizations, was pulled out of the second by the boom of World War II. In 1945 a Chicago federal court turned over the Milwaukee for a five-year period to five voting trustees, headed...
...performances. The play has been revived in London every Christmas season since, except in the blitz years of '40 and '41. On Broadway, Maude Adams played Peter over 300 times between 1905 and 1916. Marilyn Miller and Eva Le Gallienne had flings at revivals in the '20s and '30s. Last week, the current Broadway production, with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, played its 238th performance, setting a new Peter Pan record; and there was no sign that the show would be closing any time soon...