Word: sigma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
...Sigma Delta Chi's Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for distinguished war correspondence...
Harrison Spangler has few close friends and few whole-souled enemies. A man of determined moderation, his unexceptional life has not even been exceptionally dull. A congenital Republican, he is also an Elk, a Mason, a Presbyterian, a Sigma Nu. He smokes cigarets absently, drinks Scotch socially, golfs casually...
...relationship between the solar system in which we dwell and the rest of our universe is similar to that of a wheel placed in a sphere, stated Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, in his recent Sigma Xi talk...
...have driven Yellow cabs in Chicago, sold magazines in Cicero, and dived off the highest tower at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. ... I have been in love three times, and playing the piano is my secret vice. Like George Ade and Harry S. New, I am a Sigma Chi. I have a Studebaker open job and an immense vocabulary. I have been writing stories very earnestly ever since I was in high school, and I shall probably continue...