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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern States and the District of Columbia contain 9,361,577 Negroes. But only in Mississippi do blacks outnumber whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Approximately 150 copies will be prepared. These will contain actual photographs instead of printed pictures. The staff has been divided into Literary, Photographic and Business Boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND HOUSE MAKES PLANS FOR YEAR BOOK | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

Modern classics of prose and poetry inscribed by their authors to the late Amy Lowell, were placed on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library yesterday in honor of the poetess' birthday today. Nearly all the volumes contain tributes, in the handwriting of the authors, to Miss Lowell as a poet or as a friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amy Lowell Exhibit | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...miles in diameter, could contain a million bodies the size of the earth. Yet the sun, though of higher than average luminosity, is rather on the small side as stars go, being officially classed as a "yellow dwarf." For a really big star astronomers look to Antares, a red supergiant 400,000,000 miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biggest Star | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...annuals of American aviation contain the names many men who quietly and efficiently have performed their duty, without the aid of public acclamation and the sport-light of fame. The pilots of the Army, Navy and commercial airlines, in making daily flights from city to city, year in and year out, have contributed invaluable service to the cause of American aviation, and their work is all the nobler because it is unheralded and unsung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSSING THE BAR | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

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