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Word: himly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-two years ago Smith College chose a Scot to be its president. It never regretted its choice. It liked witty, tolerant William Allan Neilson so well that when he retired last June it asked him to help choose his own successor. Last week Dr. Neilson and Smith's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neilson's Successor | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Davis will come to Smith as soon as Cornell lets him go; meanwhile Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow* will continue as Smith's acting president. To Smith's girls, impatient to see their new prexy, Dr. Neilson last week reported that after considering 100 candidates the trustees had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neilson's Successor | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Andover's old boys were not sure whether they altogether approved their school's transformation, were reassured when they learned that much of it had been contributed by an old boy they knew well, the late Thomas Cochran, who arrived at the school with 50?, worked his way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Andover | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

In Whiteside, Kaufman & Hart hilariously held the mirror up to ill-nature. Crusty, crotchety, mischiefmaking, selfish, their renowned invalid badgers all comers in epigrammatic Billingsgate. Every combat, to him, is a Blitzkrieg. Now & then, as on Christmas Eve, his gushing soul drips treacle; but the real Whiteside, from his wheelchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

> Lanky Ellsworth Vines, 28, of Pasadena: the 13th annual tournament of the U. S. Professional Tennis Association (in which were entered all the top-ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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