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Word: adolph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was to know about Egypt and the Hebrews. At Yale he got his M.A., would have got a Ph.D. if he had not been so impatient to learn more. It was Professor Harper, then at Yale, who sent him off to Berlin to study under famed Egyptologist Adolph Erman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: East Gone West | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...Some onetime newsboys: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Roy Wilson Howard, Henry Latham Doherty, John Haydock Carroll, Thomas Alva Edison, William Wrigley Jr., Adolph Simon Ochs, Edward William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newspapers & Newsboys | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...York Evening Post, already 80 years old, was merged with Editor Edwin Lawrence Godkin's Nation. The small New York Times (published by Raymond & Jones) was 30, and Adolph Ochs was editing his Chattanooga Times. James Gordon Bennett the Elder was dead, succeeded by his son as publisher of the Herald. Joseph Pulitzer was about to leave St. Louis (after one of his editors shot a prominent citizen) to go to Manhattan and, as things turned out, to buy the World. Frank Munsey was a telegraph operator in Augusta, Me. Edward Wyllis Scripps had started his Penny Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Half-Century | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Patrick H. Joyce, chairman and acting president of Chicago Great Western .RcU was made its president (see above). Adolph F. Stone, former chairman of F- 6 W, Grand-Silver Stores, Inc-> was made president, succeeding his brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Gorillas are often less hairy than men, Professor Adolph Hans Schultz of Johns Hopkins reported last week. By personal count he found that men averaged 312 hairs on each square centimeter of scalp, 9 per sq. cm. of chest; gorillas 4.5 of chest, 307 of scalp. This indicated that clothes have not marred the human pelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hairs | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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