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Word: fields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lupe Lupien, 1938 League batting champ by almost 100 points, is a finished college batsman. Lupe, heady at the plate, hits well to any field and is a good baserunner...

Author: By Thedore R. Barneit, | Title: Batting Power Key to Nine's League Prospects This Year | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

Crash experts of CAA's Air Safety Board attributed Braniff's crash to the left engine's throwing a cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship slewed sidewise into the ground. Like the Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rueful Receiver | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

When Dr. Fishbein took the stand he boldly repeated to an eager audience of former Brinkley patients and local high-school students that Brinkley was a "quack." He defined the word as "a person who makes extravagant or blatant claims as to his own ability in the field of science or medicine," pointed out that Brinkley had never submitted a description of his rejuvenating operations or drugs to a recognized scientific publication, declared that A. M. A. chemists had found Brinkley's prize rejuvenation medicine to consist of water, a dye (methylene blue) and a little hydrochloric acid, none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brinkley's Trial | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Economics is the leading field because of an excellent tutoring staff headed by Seymour Harris, associate professor of Economics, a well stocked library on all the Social Sciences, and the large number of Economics concentrators that regularly enter the House. The eminently successful Dunster House Economics Society is a manifestation of this side of the House...

Author: By A. C. Hanford, | Title: Characteristics of Dunster, Lowell, Winthrop Discussed in House Article | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...appointment of Mr. Hicks to a position in the department of English could be respectfully asked merely on the basis of his recognized scholarship in the field on greatly strengthened by the success as a teacher which led 250 students to put their names to a petition demanding his retention on the basis of his work this year. Unfortunately for the head-in-sand opponents of everything Mr. Hicks stand for, the Committee of Eight published its report on tenure and appointment at the wrong time. Here is the definite statement that a university should not merely tolerate "heretics" among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAIR HARVARD | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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