Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best...
With the holding of the First International Conference on Fever Therapy in Manhattan last week, a new medical art became of age. The French Government saluted the event by having its Consul General of New York, Count Charles de Ferry de Fontnouvelle confer membership in the Legion of Honor upon, four U. S. pioneers in the field-Willis Rodney Whitney, General Electric's vice president who invented the radiotherm (high frequency electric device for creating artificial fevers in sick people); Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors vice president, who designed the hypertherm (air-conditioned hot box in which sick people...
...university has yet to take firm root in the U. S. Of the nine such universities extant, four were private schools taken over when they succumbed to financial difficulties. The Col lege of Charleston (S. C.), founded in 1770 and under city control since 1837, is in point of age Louisville's chief rival. The University of Akron (1913) was once a Universalist college. The Municipal Uni versity of Omaha (1931) was founded as a non-sectarian institution by Rev. Daniel Jenkins, a Presbyterian minister, for Omahans who did not want to go to Jesuit Creighton University. The other...
...complete remaking of the country's investment business. Said he: "Today, as you well know, we have a practical usurpation of the rights of the great body of investors, which can be only described as financial royalism. Our pres ent situation is a carryover from a previous age when there were only a small number of security holders. It should not apply when we are today a nation of investors." The problem was, he said, to achieve "democratization in industrial management," to make management responsive to the will of the "real owners of the business." Commissioner Douglas' solution...
...Easter holiday the Toronto Stock Exchange will re-open for business in a brand-new building, the most up-to-date trading floor in the world. Toronto likes to think of this new building as symbolizing not only the new importance of its mining mart but the coming of age of the Dominion's most boisterous industry. To mark this notable event with appropriate fanfare, President Harry Broughton Housser scheduled not one but two formal openings...