Word: alma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tillotsen, who calls Brown his Alma Mater, was seen prodding Fritz Stein into accepting some liberty last week-end. The results are unknown, but Freddie was pretty sharp in Monday's classes, so perhaps James wasn't very persuasive. The amount of mail Don McClure received from Texas leads us to believe that this quiet, longhorn is already making plans for his leave
...unusual background for an educator. One of the first college men (Ohio State '13) to be hired by the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he rose to be managing editor of the Cleveland Press, left it in 1919, returned to his alma mater as alumni secretary. He became Ohio State's vice president...
...afterwards. He went to Thacher School in California, twice won the Croix de guerre in World War I. Back in the U.S. he went to Yale, where he published poems in the Lit. He is married to Novelist Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision), daughter of the late soprano Alma Gluck...
...rougher, tougher than in most cities, but the people work hard, seem happy. Said Works Director Nosov: "Two or three years after the war we will have time to build thousands of new individual homes, streetcar lines, roads, theaters, cinemas, clubs, restaurants." But now-in Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tashkent, Alma-Ata-production for war is all that matters. In the 15 years since Stalin decreed the creation of this industrial reserve in Asiatic Russia, the Soviet Union had achieved neither the capacity nor the efficiency of the industrial U.S. But the Russians had done a miraculous...
Prodigious Apple. Alma-Ata is a beautiful city amid the snow-capped Altai Mountains. This capital of the Kazak Republic is nearer Chungking than Moscow. It has 400,000 population (40,000 in 1925), was not reached by the railroad until...