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Word: childses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If autogiro builders pride themselves on one thing, it is the security of the rotor assembly, the arrangement of windmill-like vanes which keeps an autogiro aloft. Every layman wants to know what would happen if the blades flew off. Always the answer is: "They don't fly off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Rotors & the Navy | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

But there is another side of undergraduate Yale which has not been touched upon until now because it can contribute only the finer shadings to a blatantly general portrait. There are those at Yale who have become firmly convinced, not of the value of its social training, not of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Yale Review | 1/19/1932 | See Source »

That social life and the chance to "do something" are, as Mr. Childs believes, more important to most students than intellectual education, few will deny. Again as Mr. Childs points out, this tendency is justified by undergraduates and by the University on the grounds that it produces men with exceptionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONG-TERM INVESTMENT | 1/19/1932 | See Source »

Yale University, much to its probable discomfiture, has hatched another crop of mosquitoes to edit again the Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Henry Clay Frick, the one-time Adelaide Howard Childs, widow of the late Pittsburgh steel tycoon; after a brief illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass. With her death, the Frick art collection, its $15,000,000 endowment and the Fifth Avenue mansion in which it is housed pass over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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