Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able Chairman William Orville Douglas of the SEC, 40, was born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully hatching out some hen's eggs (TIME, Feb. 13), Janizary Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran applauded. Mr. Douglas...
Like the Crimson, Princeton is a spotty team that has turned in a rather inconsistent record this year. But the Tigers have the edge in speed and experience and will be favorites on their home ice. Particularly dangerous for the Varsity will be Ralphie Wyer, Minnesota-born Tiger forward, who stands second only to Bud Foster of Dartmouth in Quadrangular League scoring...
When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had conceived a basic principle of television-electronic scansion of an image...
...years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree-the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with...
...voice thundered out over the audience, rolling majestically up even to the furthermost balcony. His bushy red eyebrows beetled noticeably. Everything had gone against him. His wife had died pitiably. Ten thousand English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...