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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will be eight events in the meets this year, including the 50-yard free style swim; 200-yard free style swim; required dives; 100-yard breast stroke swim; 100-yard back stroke swim; 100-yard free style swim; optional dives; and 200-yard relay race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE SWIM TEAMS TO OPEN SCHEDULE TODAY | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...like blind people, he anticipated objects, and consistently hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Elmer Gantry | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Georgy Dana of Eliot barely edged out AI Blanchard of Winthrop and Dick Mudge of Kirkland, who tied for second; Dana's time was 10:6. It was another Elephant who provided the thrill in the mile, when Dinwiddle Smith forged in front coming down the home stretch to breast the tape in 5,25.4. Deacons Alan Manning and Hardy Phippen took second and third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Triumph is House Track Meet, Tallying 46 1-2 Points to Lowell's 31 | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...heretofore unknown species. Not his best book, Zaca Venture presents the most crowded world so far, since it touches on everything from a 42-foot whale shark (the largest true fish known) to a minute feather-fly which lays its eggs and travels in comfort in the white breast feathers of the Brewster booby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crowded World | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Yale University's Medical School, two years ago, Biologist Leonell Clarence Strong fed oil of wintergreen to laboratory mice with cancerous tumors of the breast. Some of the tumors melted away. The thing that did the trick was the active principle of wintergreen oil, heptyl aldehyde, a fragrant, colorless liquid. With the help of his colleague, Leon Fradley Whitney, Dr. Strong then set to work on dogs. In last week's Science the biologists revealed the following promising results: injection of small amounts of fresh heptyl aldehyde under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer News | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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