Word: alma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graham Mayo, 35, son of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo of Rochester, Minn.'s famed Mayo Brothers (other: Dr. William James); when, to get from one highway to another, he drove his automobile down the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks and was crushed by a Chicago-bound train; in Alma...
...Manhattan firm of Tamblyn & Tamblyn, began to bombard the desks of U. S. school executives with a brochure called Now Is the Time. Thesis of Now Is the Time is that schools are not sharing sufficiently in the national recovery, that the time is ripe once more for Alma Mater to put out her hand...
...existence, which is that college spirit is too worn out and decrepit to beget more than a weakling doomed to an early death--even with the assistance of Bryn Mawr. It does exist at a football game, and in a certain sentimental aura that clings round the memory of alma matter; but the conception that a university is one happy family, the members of which do the same things with equal enjoyment, went out with pompadours. People who are interested in hiking and hobby clubs will continue to hike; and no amount of artificial on a campus they consider dull...
...moving parts, time payments and advantages as a theatre for youthful lovemaking, served as the central figure. Not exactly a novel, Clutch and Differential is by George Weller, whose first book, Not to Eat, Not for Love, published three years ago, was a witty college story laid in his alma mater, Harvard. The elusive theme of his new work is taken from an automobile sales circular: "Bodies never cease changing . . . but power in motor vehicles is still infused at the clutch and discharged through the differential. Beneath American-made bodies that are tastefully refashioned every year, power transmission has gained...
...Alma mater's thousands are in the stands fighting with you for another victory. Best of luck...