Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clusters are roughly globe-shaped, with a slight elongation in an east-west direction. The star population of the clusters is arranged with considerable compactness at the center, with the space between stars increasing toward the outer boundaries...
...another segment threatening to block her channels of communication with them. Or they see it as a problem of overpopulation in the crowded centres of the world, the masses of Europe and Japan swelling and pressing against the barriers that block them from the sparsely inhabited areas of the globe. Or they see it as a problem of armaments, the countries jockeying desperately for first place in a race whose only end is death. But however they state it, their theories, analyses, guesses and figures come out the same and say, as do events, that war is inevitable...
Representing the world of sport will be Buddy Hasset of the Boston Bees baseball team and Victor Jones, sports editor of the Boston Globe. George C. MacKinnon, columnist with the Boston Record, will preside as Master of Ceremonies...
Married. Clyde E. Pangborn, 42. pilot who in 1931 circled the globe with rich Hugh Herndon Jr., flying nonstop from Japan to the U. S. (a feat still unrepeated); and Mlle Swana Beauclaire Duval, dress designer; in Southampton, England...
...advantages boys have who go to Harvard with its background of 300 years of educational preeminence. Those of us who for financial reasons have to send our children to Wesleyan or Bowdoin just can't hope to give them an opportunity to learn how to swallow live goldfish. -Boston Globe...