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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long last, last week, Yale met Michigan at New Haven. In its magnificent Payne Whitney natatorium, Yale lined up a green but well-rounded team, which had chalked up nine victories and no defeats this season. Michigan's team, also undefeated, was rated better. It included Tom Haynie, generally considered the best all-round college swimmer in the U. S., and Ed Kirar, intercollegiate sprint champion. As might have been expected, Michigan won, but only after the score had been tied three times and finally clinched (41-to-34) in the very last event on the program when Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grudge Fight | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Temperamentally, Harry Luce was TIME'S lightning; Brit Hadden its thunder. Young Editor Hadden, black-haired, bushy-browed and so nervous that he never sat still, always scowled at copy, generally from beneath a green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: ANNIVERSARY | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Bobby Green and Russ Allen preceded Dick Harlow in speaking about the importance of Spring practice in order to get blocking and tackling down cold and leave the short Fall session for the finer points of perfecting the plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Candidates Hear Plans | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

...Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant ovaries swelled up just as though the blooms had been pollinated, the seed coats developed, and the berries, green at first, turned red at the proper time in the autumn. To the eye, they were no different from berries from pollinated blooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Parthenocarpy | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Neal in his rebuttal for Harvard said, "Successful compulsory arbitration is impossible in the U. S. today." To prove his point he read off telegrams from Lewis and Green, which showed that labor did not want compulsory arbitration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM MEETS LELAND STANFORD MEN | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

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