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Word: glenn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good as the famous duet done some years ago with Earl Hines, it still is plenty good jazz . . . By all means, listen to "Floyd's Guitar Blues" by Andy Kirk featuring the guitar player that Goodman is trying to wheedle away from Kirk with a few thousand dollars . . . Glenn Miller's "Stairway to the Stars" taken from the Park Avenue Fantasy in an attempt to imitate the success of "Deep Purple" is nice sweet stuff . . . And Lionel Hampton's "It Don't Mean a Thing" is really vicious swing

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...half years ago Dr. Glenn E. Willhelmy of St. Louis, a Naval Reserve dentist, reported to the Navy that such ear troubles, along with attacks of vertigo (". . . if mild the pilot does not mention it ... if severe, he crashes"), were most often found in older airmen. His conclusion was that normal wear and loss of teeth make jaws shut out of position, cause a partial closure of the Eustachian tubes. His remedy: an up-building of teeth by inlays and other dental means to make a youthful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilots' Teeth | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Those leaving at the end of the year include the following instructors: Joe S. Bain to the University of Colorado; Glenn H. Craig to the University of Montana; J. Kenneth Galbraith, who holds a faculty appointment, to Princeton; John P. Miller '32 to Princeton for a year; Spencer Pollard '32, to the Sloan Foundation of New York University, where he will direct a movie educational campaign in economics; Kenyon F. Poole '29, to Brown; George P. Reynolds '20, to Johns Hopkins; and Harold F. Williamson to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Termination of Eight Appointments in Department of Economics Is Revealed | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

...issue of March 20, TIME refers to Glenn Cunningham as "the world's greatest miler." In view of the fact that Wooderson of England holds the record which is recognized by the International Amateur Athletic Federation, how can this statement be considered correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...seven years in which he has consistently outrun other milers, Glenn Cunningham has run a mile under 4:10 at least eleven times, has once (on Dartmouth's board track, year ago) unofficially beaten the world's record of 4:06.4 by 2 seconds. This consistent excellence makes him, in most sportswriters' opinions, "world's greatest miler." Announced last week was a meeting between Cunningham and Britisher Sydney Wooderson (holder of the world's record) next June 17 in Princeton's Palmer Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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