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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purdue's greatest feat of the season was holding mighty Notre Dame to one field goal (3-to-0) in its opening game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...greatest living British philanthropist and one of the Empire's greatest armorers is William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield. Not quite bold enough to attack Lord Nuffield directly as a profiteer, Laborite Stokes made allegations in the House of Commons about two firms, which he called "A" and "B," bidders as subcontractors to Nuffield Mechanisations & Aero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ipswich Gadfly | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Surging out of the stadium, a majority of the 54,000 football fans remarked: "Harmon is the greatest football player since Red Grange." But Grand Mogul Yost, who had seen many a star in his half century of football, went further back. Said he: "The greatest since Willie Heston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...mostly concentrated toward the centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic gravity over a long time, or that when the stars originally were formed from the parent nebula, conditions favored the formation of big stars in the region of greatest density. In either case the Cepheid variables seem destined to shed further light on cosmic history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soundings | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Johns Hopkins Alfred Shriver bequeathed $650,000 for a lecture hall. Its equipment is to be "the best obtainable in the world," its walls covered with murals painted by "the best available artists." What caused the greatest tongue-wagging in Baltimore since Wallis Warfield bagged a King-Emperor was the stipulation that one mural shall show the famous beauties of Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Baltimore Beauties | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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