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Word: alabama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite crossed fingers and toes, strong misgivings and grave doubts the Senate last week passed (46-to-39) a bill by the Brothers Bankhead of Alabama to limit cotton production by penalties instead of bribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Cotton by Quota | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Three years ago Professor Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute was studying various elements by the magneto-optic method when he got unexpected results which led him to suspect the existence of a hydrogen isotope whose nucleus was twice as heavy as that of ordinary hydrogen. Not long afterward Dr. Urey and two associates concentrated enough of the isotope to identify it. He estimated that heavy hydrogen was present in ordinary hydrogen gas to the extent of about one part in 4,000. He named the new isotope deuterium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prima Donna No. 2 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Still digging deep into the refuse pile of canceled airmail contracts. Alabama's smart little Senator Black last week plucked out some new names that made news because of their connections with the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Senators' Sons | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...Beavers live in most of the U. S. but may be legally trapped this year only in Pennsylvania, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Kansas, Kentucky, parts of Michigan, Oregon, Texas and Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Beavers in Pennsylvania | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...jowled Adolph Rupp to teach the University of Kentucky boys how to play. He taught them so well that in three years they won 64 out of 72 games, and last year the Southeastern Conference. Last week, undefeated for the season, his team moved toward another championship by beating Alabama 26-to-21. In the Southwest, Texas Christian boasts: 1) League leadership; 2) a forward named Richard Allison, 6 ft. 5 in., 200 lb., who has scored 86 points this season. Rocky Mountain. Even in this single league basketball styles vary. The western division (Utah and Montana) plays a slambang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball: Midseason | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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