Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handicap, big prize event of the meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins, and the same person never wins twice...
Chicago newspapers have a hardheaded, warm-hearted habit of giving free entertainment to Chicago's populace. Last fortnight the Chicago Tribune held its annual Chicagoland Music Festival (classic music; attendance, 85,000) in Soldier Field on the lakefront. This week it sponsored an All-Star football game on the Field. Calculating that it would be too expensive to dismantle a loudspeaker system on the Field between the two events, the Tribune agreed to let a rival, the tabloid Daily Times, use the equipment last week for a free entertainment of its own-a "Swing Jam Session" of five "name...
...since early summer had been traveling two political circuses: a party of eight candidates stumping for nomination as Governor; a trio wrangling over a Senatorship. The nation watched the trio for in it was Senator Ellison DuRant ("Cotton Ed") Smith, 74, dean of Senate Democrats (30 years), upon whose classic brow Franklin Roosevelt had placed his angry Purge mark. Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston, 41, was the Purge's agent and candidate. Third man was State Senator Edgar A. Brown. 50, able parliamentarian, former Speaker of the South Carolina House, who in 1926 came within 5,000 votes...
...NICOTINE ACID IN THE TREATMENT OF PELLAGRA, by Dr. Clarence Nall Bogart of Forrest City, Ark.; THE TREATMENT OF SUBCLINICAL AND CLASSIC PELLAGRA, by Drs. Tom Douglas Spies, William Bennett Bean of Cincinnati, Ohio, & Dr. Robert Edwards Stone of Birmingham...
...they are of one mind. Contrary to nudists' beliefs, prolonged exposure to sunlight is definitely harmful. Sunburn is a form of skin disease, stretching and often paralyzing the superficial capillaries of the skin, increasing fibrous tissue. In time the skin grows scaly, inelastic, wrinkled, becomes predisposed to cancer. Classic medical example of sun-caused cancer is the case of Australian sheepherders, who work unprotected in strong sunlight, contract more skin cancer than any other group...