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Word: havener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grubbing Clerk. Today, at 75, Joseph Armstrong still slaves over his collection after class "like a miserable, grubbing clerk." He still snarls at his students ("They haven't even heard about God"), but he likes to invite the "kids" around for long talks after supper. To him, his is the happiest profession. "If I had ten migrations of the soul," says he, "I'd want to be nothing more than a teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professor with a Passion | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Scientific American (est. 1845), lately a haven for publicity handouts, dressed up to become, once more, a magazine for scientific Americans. With a new editorial board, headed by Gerard Piel, former LIFE science editor, and backers who included Lessing J. Rosenwald and Bernard Baruch, Scientific American hoped to bring science into 100,000 armchairs. Inside the sleek, four-color cover of its May issue were well-illustrated articles on such topics as Vesalius, founder of modern anatomy; the Amazon River; the "dust cloud" theory of the formation of planetary systems. First press run: 100,000 copies, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Cash, New Faces | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...months past, Dumaine & friends had quietly spent an estimated $5,000,000 buying up the voting preferred stock which controls the long-bankrupt New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road Co., recently reorganized. When the management of the New Haven finally began to suspect what was happening, it was too late. Last week Dumaine told them the score: his group controlled more than half the New Haven's 391,000 active shares of preferred. An additional 62,090 shares are held in trust and there is question whether they can be voted. Thus, Dumaine thought he had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raid on the New Haven | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...HAVEN, May 13 (AP) Four of Yale's eight varsity oarsmen were reported today to be recovering from grippe as the Blue crew propared to head for Cambridge, Mass., and the important Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges regatta...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Ten Crews Battle For Sprint Crown | 5/14/1948 | See Source »

...things go the way they've been going all year, the Jayvee baseball team should return from New Haven tomorrow with a victory in its season finale. Warren Berg's Freshman outfit seems doomed to end its campaign on a more dour note...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard, J.V. Nines Finish Against Eli | 5/14/1948 | See Source »

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