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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longoria said he had destroyed his horrendous gadget, would not build another unless the U. S. were threatened with invasion. Last week the U. S. had not yet been invaded, but the inventor, with his eye on the war in Europe, announced that the machine could be rebuilt in four or five hours, that in time of need he would give it to the Government, free of charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Specific | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

University of California's faculty ranks as one of the Big Four among U. S. universities (with Harvard, Chicago, Columbia). Few years ago the American Council on Education rated California "distinguished" in 21 of 35 departments (Harvard: 23). Among California's distinguished professors: Atom-Smasher Ernest Orlando Lawrence, French Scholar Haakon Chevalier, Chemist Gilbert Lewis, Spanish Scholar Rudolph Schevill, Biologist Herbert McLean Evans, Paleobotanist Ralph W. Chaney, Legal Scholar Max Radin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pipes and Old Jokes | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Wiggins, a hotel clerk, was the culprit in The Adventure of the Mother Goose Murders, that week's twist in the Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Clew of the Busted Hose | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...back who shone most brilliantly last week was Tom Harmon of Michigan. Against Iowa, Junior Harmon, a 9.9 sprinter and champion hurdler, scored every one of Michigan's 27 points: four touchdowns (including a 90-yd. dash after intercepting a forward pass) and three conversions- as magnificent a display of fancy field running, forward passing, blocking and place-kicking as has been seen on a college football field since the days of Red Grange. Michigan 27, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Backs | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...good old days when there were flights of 150,000,000 ducks instead of 65,000,000, when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45 days, and there was no such thing as daily bag limits (this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before 7 a.m. or after 4 p.m.; no more than three shells in a gun; no live decoys; no baiting in duck-shooting areas. And many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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