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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the late Dr. William T. Brigham, director of physical education at Harvard University, took measurements of some 2,000 Harvard students between 1870 and 1880, it has been possible by measuring later students to discover a distinct change in size, an evolutionary trend. Last week Gordon Townsend Bowles, graduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Evolution | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

The present college generation of Harvard men whose fathers and grandfathers were Harvard men is one of the tallest groups in the world, averaging 5 feet 10 1-0 inches, and the annual increase in stature has been at the rate of about one inch every 32 years, over a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men Growing Longer and Longer According to Two-Year Investigation--Hips are Waning at Womens' Colleges | 5/22/1931 | See Source »

Since there were no records available to show the measurements of the mothers of Harvard men, Mr. Bowles discovered data on 501 mothers and their daughters who has attended Wellesley, Vassar, Smith, and Mt. Holyoke. The college daughters average 5 feet 4 8-10 inches in height. They are 1...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men Growing Longer and Longer According to Two-Year Investigation--Hips are Waning at Womens' Colleges | 5/22/1931 | See Source »

At 1:40 a. m. last July 23, Gerald E. ("Jerry") Buckley, radio announcer, sat in the lobby of the La Salle Hotel in Detroit. He had just finished broadcasting the returns of the referendum which recalled Mayor Charles Bowles from office (TiME, Aug. 4). Jerry Buckley's political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Detroit's Question | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Gobel advertising is handled by Benton & Bowles. Before setting out on the campaign 200 New York women were called at random on the telephone. Only seven were in favor of the 18th Amendment. That decided Benton & Bowles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ham & Beer | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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