Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being a kind and patient man in private life, it would take what Pegler calls a "Viennese head-feeler" to explain his acidity in print. Born in Minneapolis, he worked for the United Press in the U.S. and abroad, wrote a column of sports comment before Roy Howard brought him to the New York World-Telegram in 1933 and made the universe his beat. Pegler is a laborious writer; his brisk, integrated sentences are the result of patient rewriting. Most of his turbulent columns are composed in the seclusion of his Pound Ridge, N. Y. estate, near the haunts...
...mentioned yesterday in these column's, Cornell's cheering section of last Saturday seemed a spiritless aggregation indeed. Surely the team, its coaches, and the associated officials could not have been encouraged by this seeming lack of enthusiasm. But it is not too late to do something about...
Slowly, relentlessly, the Japanese army pushed on last week toward Hankow, with two columns racing to be the first to cut off the Chinese capital's railroad communications. One column pierced to within 30 miles of Sinyang, on the Peking-Hankow line 120 miles north of Hankow. A second edged to within 60 miles of Sienning, on the Hankow-Canton Railway 70 miles south of the capital. The main Japanese force, supported by the navy, threatened heavily fortified Tienchiachen, in the narrow gorges of the Yangtze River 100 miles below Hankow. At week's end Chinese Generalissimo Chiang...
...been trying for a long time to get back some money he had loaned Reporter Blackburn. One of the Tribune's shovel-leaning pictures, said Mr. Hunter's statement, was taken at a private sewer job; another had been hastily cut down to a single column between editions when Tribune editors found it showed a number of men working hard in the background...
Enrollment figures in the other large courses for the last three years. In the list column I denotes an increase, and D and decrease. See page one for largest courses. Course 1936-37 1937-38 1938-39 Anthropology I 88 81 111 I Chemistry A 125 153 161 I Chemistry B 158 201 194 -- Chemistry 2 170 193 209 I Economics 41 213 206 186 D Economics 61 168 177 199 I English A-1 * 202 199 -- English I * * 204 -- English 7 130 135 143 -- Eng.35 (Comp.Lit.) 296 195 83 -- Fine Arts 1d * * 248 -- French 6 166 127 143 -- German...