Word: fordham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polo Grounds in Manhattan, a flashy Purdue eleven that allowed Minnesota to score only seven points against it last fortnight miraculously held Fordham to a 6-to-6 tie, despite the fact that Fordham gained over three times as much ground by rushing (419 yards to 129 yards...
...years, kindly, mellow-voiced Dr. Alexander Nicoll of New York's Fordham Hospital waited to try out an operation which he had carefully studied step by step from texts and charts. His opportunity came last April when attendants wheeled in Patrolman William Manning, who had been stabbed through the heart, was on the verge of death...
Died. Rev. Walter Gerard Summers, S. J., 49, head of Fordham University's department of psychology; of coronary thrombosis; in The Bronx. Father Summers invented a lie detector (psychogal-vanometer), which registers the variation in the minute electrical currents coursing through the body, claimed 100% accuracy for it. Last March, in Queens County Court, N. Y., his lie detector was the first to be accepted as a creditable witness in a New York criminal court...
Washington Avenue is a residential street that cuts due north and south through the low rolling hills of The Bronx. It begins north of the Harlem River where the Third Avenue Elevated slices off on the bias, and it ends, some 40 blocks beyond, at the campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult...
...visible working model" for Catholics throughout the U. S., a Press Relations Committee was formed in Manhattan, its membership representing 14 national Catholic groups like the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Daughters of America, Fordham Alumni, etc. The committee divided into subcommittees, one to watch for "anti-Catholic propaganda" in each important newspaper and magazine, with a view to beginning negotiations if a publication persists in being biased. Father Toomey denies that the aims of the Press Relations Committee resemble those of the Legion of Decency. Declared he: "The function of these committees is not primarily one of protest or criticism...