Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jordan's first Harvard wrestling team started its season with easy victories over MIT and Wesleyan, reaching its peak just before the exam period break against Columbia. After Army come Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale...
Today they try again, providing the temperature is low enough, and tomorrow they will definitely play the Brown freshman at the Arena. This week's schedule also lists Saturday game at Exeter...
Arthur Tyndall ("a slender man in a brown jacket and grey trousers") had to admit that he was a little disappointed with the University of Toronto. It seemed to have no real character. Was it nothing but a "facts factory"? Tyndall, who had come to Toronto to be warden of Hart House, wrote to a friend back in New Zealand: "I can't seem to make up my mind about this place. It [presents] a nice intellectual problem...
...Nichols switched painlessly to a Harvard publicity job and then to TVA. In 1937 he became editor of Sunset, a Pacific Coast house-&-garden monthly; in 1943 he became editor of This Week, only four years after joining the staff of its founding editor, the late Mrs. William Brown ("Missy") Meloney. Both money-losers were out of the red a year after he took them over...
...path of two-way trade with Europe, which ECA hopes to smooth, was still rocky. When Cleveland's Municipal Light Plant opened bids last week for two new turbogenerators, Switzerland's Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. was low by $500,000, Nevertheless, some city officials wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than...