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Word: columbia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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DETROIT Mich, (UP) Columbia Lou Gehrig's great iron-man baseball record was abruptly cut short yesterday at 2130 consecutive games, and his mates took the occasion to go on a scoring spree and pound out 22 runs against the liap less Detroit Tigers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOU GEMRIG BENCMES SELF TO END GREAT IRON-MAN STREAK | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...interfere with its highly prized academic independence. However, the validity of the argument crumbles when the facts of the case are examined. Ninety-eight per cent of all schools eligible for the grant have accepted it and this group contains-some three-hundred private non-sectarian colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Radcliffe--none of whom have yet shown any grave sign of government corruption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PRIDE GOETH BEFORE..." | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Healey has proven himself a worthy rival of Yale's Moe Jubitz and Dartmouth's Hal Wonson by his six-hit performance in the Columbia tussle and his four-hit masterpiece in whitewashing Princeton. In his last two games, the big pitcher has passed three men, and allowed only one extra base knock...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: HARD-HITTING NINE TACKLES TERRIERS | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...volume monumental for scholarship, yet easy to read and superbly illustrated,* German-born, Nazi-banned Dr. Margarete Bieber (now of Columbia University) has told in full the story of the Greek and Roman theatre-its drama, stagecraft, architecture, acting. Besides treating of obscure and controversial points chiefly interesting to archeologists, her book resurrects many a curious and picturesque fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Pre-Broadway | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark's elation when he wrote, at the mouth of the Columbia: "Ocian in view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Highway | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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