Word: craig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read with great interest the account of Dr. Craig Taylor's experiments on the effect of high temperatures on the human body [TIME, Dec. 22]. I have wondered since if Dr. Taylor knew of similar experiments which were recorded by Sir David Brewster in his Letters on Natural Magic, written in 1832... . The report, in part, reads as follows...
...Craig, brash correspondent for a group of Maine newspapers, objected: "But they did not change the structural appearance of the house, Mr. President." Yes, Mr. Truman declared, they did. The entire interior was changed when Mrs. Fillmore put in the first bathtubs, and she was almost lynched for doing...
Reeking Harvard tradition staggers with admiration and askance before the feats of team bulwarks, Julian J. Leavitt '49, William H. Watts '50, Broward R. Craig, Jr. '48, and Frank H. David...
...popular music, Alfred Bryan & Fred Fisher's 34-year-old hit Peg o' My Heart (TIME, July 7) was the top song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout...
...outcome of the tournament hung on three games which had been adjourned. Craig's final win at board three threw the tournament onto a point basis, with Leavitt's seventy-nine move draw against Yale and Columbia's loss to Princeton at table one giving the contest to Harvard...