Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telluride, Col. adopted none of these courses. Having fraudulently obtained some $500,000 from six Manhattan banks to save his Telluride bank (TIME, Sept. 16), Mr. Waggoner was last week apprehended in a Wyoming tourist camp. He was traveling in his own car and under his own name, although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving off his mustache. Arrested, he admitted his guilt, said that he expected to spend the rest of his life in jail, maintained that it was better for the depositors of the six Manhattan banks to lose $500,000 than for that loss...
Darwinism, says Julian Huxley, is not dead, as "irresponsible persons" think. Evolution-evidence "by now is overwhelming. Although we are very far from under-standing [how] . . . hens do develop from eggs. . . . The idea of Evolution is as important a biological tool as ... the microscope...
...were Glenna Collett, Edith Cummings, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, Edith Quier, Mrs. Harry Pressler. The tournament, called variously "The Derby," "The Inaugural" and the Western Women's Medal Play Championship, may be made a national fixture, with hard-hitting Helen Hicks as first defender of a title comparable-although there are no known women professionals-to the na- tional open championship...
...that they virtually formed a second rear wing, George Fernic, tousle-haired Rumanian, was building a monoplane with a second true wing set at its nose. His theory was that the auxiliary wing would prevent stalling. Last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I., Designer Fernic flew his machine successfully, although he could gain only 700 feet altitude. On a second trial he ran it into a wire fence, partially wrecked...
...accepted, collegiate circles will not be the last to foresee the possibility of a future invasion of professionalism upon fields that have thus far been represented mainly by the amateur. It was not such a far cry to the professional conquest of hockey, while the present invasion of football, although not yet a conquest by any means, is an established fact. Professionalism steps in where angels fear to tread as is evidenced by recent attempts to commercialize even the most commonplace dance marathon, let alone the attempted subsidization of better accepted sports such as tennis...