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Word: balding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TUBBS, new football coach at the University of Iowa, is a short, bald 49-year old native of Kentucky, who may shortly be known among Hawkeye followers as Wash Tubbs, after the stubby comic strip character of that name. Eighteen years a coach, he can best be identified nationally as the inventor of the quick-kick, as one of the first to conduct summer schools for coaches, and as the holder of lucrative patent rights to valveless, seamless footballs and basketballs and elastic ribbed football pants. All-Americans Ernie Nevers of Stanford and Pat Boland of Minnesota first took grid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER These Names Make News | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Composer Saminsky is neat, bald, hardly more than five feet high. He helped found the League of Composers, persuaded it to put on modern operas and ballets. Since 1924 he has been music director at Temple Emanu-El, biggest synagog in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Saminsky's Indians | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...things in common. They coached highly respected football teams about to engage each other, they had the same birth date, October 8, and both had served as lieutenants in separate aero squadrons with the A. E. F. The final score was Army 13, Nebraska 3. In 1935 Nebraska's bald-headed grid tutor evened the score. His Cornhuskers trampled Major Jones Sooners of Oklahoma two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER These Names Make News | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

...bald now and he wears thick triple-lens glasses beneath which his eyes water in the sun. He is still at Harvard. He is the head section-man in Iranian Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/25/1937 | See Source »

...underwritings has risen from $12,658,000 in 1933 to $16,326,000 in 1936. Fire insurance is now its smallest field, ocean marine its largest. It writes all forms of insurance except life. Mr. Levison's successor as president of the com-pany is tall, bald Yaleman Charles R. Page. 59, who has been in Mr. Levison's old division of marine insurance ever since he left college, except for three years as a Commissioner of the U. S. Shipping Board during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fireman's Fund | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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