Word: conrad
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Dr. Frank Conrad, 67, "father of radio broadcasting"; in Miami. He played phonograph records in a homemade station he built in his garage in Pittsburgh, in 1919, broadcast plugs for the dealer he borrowed records from, acquired a regular audience of listeners...
...Varsavina's life give her no end of trouble. They are three: Stanislas Rosing (Conrad Veidt), who snatches her from a circus, makes her a great dancer, marries her, dies; Roger Chevis (John Shepperd), who dies before he can marry her; and David Gibson (Dean Jagger), rich U.S. shipbuilder, who marries her but lives to tell the tale...
...Keynote of the meeting was sounded by Dr. Conrad Elvehjem of Wisconsin (originator of nicotinic-acid treatment for pellagra), who said: "Many of the deficiency diseases . . . are multiple deficiencies...
...Conrad Pearson 3L, former college football and soccer star, will lead one group of Yardlings at 5 o'clock today at the Homenway Gym, white David C. Hyde leads another group at the Homenway time on the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building. The latter acted in the same capacity last year, but Pearson is a newcomer, having succeeded James Evans...
...cast of the Cambridge Summer Theatre has caught this spirit of the authors of "The Male Animal" and have not stretched the comedy of the play to a point where it becomes farce. Conrad Nagel, in the lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red-baiting campaign, interprets with keen feeling the predicament of the man who finds that the seeker of truth must travel alone and that the lonely path is hard to follow. As the "half-witted, half-baked halfback," Edmond Ryan fills a difficult role more than adequately. And Irving Locke gives...