Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifty years ago on November 10 when Dartmouth sent her first football team to Cambridge. In those days there was no stadium, there was the flying "V", and Dartmouth provided opposition which, according to the Boston Globe "might possibly be able to cope with Boston Latin School." A half a century of rivalry has seen a complete reversal of conditions, it has beheld the development of football from a sport to a major business, it has bound two institutions with the thread of tradition, of mutual respect...
Little though it was known outside of Asia. China was rancid with cholera this summer, a pestilential menace to the rest of the globe. By last week, as cold weather crept over the country, the trouble was subsiding. Remembered then was the prediction of Dr. J. H. Jordan. British Commissioner of Public Health of the Shanghai International Settlement, that the disease, which is always skulking in China, would be especially virulent this year. Some 500,000 Chinese contracted the disease, some 150,000 died (Dr. Jordan's estimate). Last July Dr. Robert Watson Hart, chief of the American Oriental...
...suicide evil is the most sinister specter of our national life, next to murder, which marks the U. S. as the most murderous nation on the face of the globe,'' wrote Consulting Statistician Dr. Hoffman for this week's Spectator. "There is the most urgent need for the organization of a national society for the study and prevention of suicide based on sound principles of voluntary service to render aid and advice to those in desperate need...
...comics of 32 newspapers (total circulation 1,100,000), biggest of which is the Detroit Free Press. The other was announced last week as the National Newspaper Group. It represents eleven large dailies of 5,200,000 circulation, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, Washington Star, Buffalo Times, Pittsburgh Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit News, St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...present research is concerned with verifying the findings of other scientists in Germany and the United States that cosmic rays approach the Earth from all directions and in practically equal intensity. If the rays make themselves more apparent in one part of the globe than in another, their direction will be ascertained, and much light will be thrown upon the question of whether or not the rays emanate from particular stars or simply from the infinite depths of space...