Word: green
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over four decades ago the brain of Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell conceived the idea that much could be learned about the functioning of the human brain if a collection of brains were established for comparative study. He announced the institution of the collection and invited contributions, especially from men of intellect. Naturally he willed his own brain to the collection. In 1925 he died and his thinking apparatus was carefully preserved in alcohol...
Julia Peterkin, for the best U. S. novel (Scarlet Sister Mary, published by Bobbs. Merrill, reviewed in TIME, Dec. 31), received $1,000. Author also of Green Thursday and Black April, Mrs. Peterkin uses all-Negro characters. She. white, is the wife of a South Carolina planter. She did not begin to write till...
Walter Hagen's caddie was nearly blown off a green but Hagen sank his putt. A camera clicked when Leo Diegel was putting. He missed by a foot...
...canny Harvard leader try to pull J. O. Wildes '29 and Leslie Flaksman '29 over the finish line behind him in the two events respectively, and, failing in this, was extended to finish ahead of Rick in the mile and Butterworth in the two mile, a pair of Green dark horses who fooled the experts by their running...
...event, since the leading Indian spear-man averages less than 175 feet. In the dual meet last Saturday the Dartmouth man won the event with a throw of 168 feet, with his two teammates both doing over 160 feet. The trials for tomorrow's games, however, showed the Green warriors in better form, the three qualifying men doing 185, 168 and 165 feet respectively...