Word: alma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck caravans down an ancient 3,000-mile trail, now modernized with gas & supply depots, running from Russian Alma Ata to Sian...
Stripped of their grey fiannel pants (which were replaced by ones which matched their coats), their dirty shoes, and their bow ties, which were both also replaced with a view to obscuring any identification with their Alma Mater, eight Seniors joined local Republican Vote-chasers Tuesday afternoon by volunteering to resurrect countless sequestered but registered as Republicans by some all-pervading act of Providence or the Republican City Committee and drive them to the polls...
...Died. Alma Gluck (real name: Reba Fiersohn Gluck Zimbalist), 54, famed Rumanian-born soprano, wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, mother of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the early days of the phonograph some singers' voices did not register well in certain ranges, but Mme Gluck's registered perfectly. Her recording of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny sold more than 1,000,000 discs...
Unless Correspondent Anderson's "defense program"* (TIME, Oct., 10) was a tongue-in-cheek stunt it is high time he was taught that all Cornellians worthy of the name are accustomed to follow an inadvertent brrp with apologies, not an announcement of the Alma Mater...
This seeming paradox existed due to the fact, that Abraham Pierson was a student from the Charles River Emporium.... Since at the time of the founding of the College there was no official seal, it was thought appropriate to place the arms of the former prexy's alma mater in a position which cried out for some specimen of the heraldic...