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Word: institutee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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At Virginia's venerable Negro Hampton Institute, famed for its fine tennis courts as well as its fine faculty, 210 of the country's top-flight Negro tennists met last week for their 23rd annual national championships, climax of the A. T. A.'s 35 sectional and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

To Anatomist Edward Allen Edwards of Harvard and Physicist Seibert Quimby Duntley of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, these theories were only skin-deep. Instead of the naked eye they used a spectrophotometer, a photoelectric device which analyzes skin color by measuring its capacity to reflect light at each separate wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skin Colors | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Asked how she came by her poise and cultivated musical taste (her only previous public appearances had been as a soloist with the Negro Hampton Institute Choir), Soprano Maynor modestly gave all the credit to her teachers. When she had heard the last concert of the Festival, Dorothy Maynor thanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salt at Stockbridge | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Livestock producers think they could get higher prices for their best beef if the public knew what it was buying, demanded quality meats. Today the Government grades not more than 9% of U. S. slaughtered beef. Producers want it all graded. Month ago new Government grading standards became effective. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOODS: The Tough Sex | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Thus last week sang Willie Long Bone, 71-year-old Delaware Indian, perched on a high stool, pounding a deerskin drum. Willie Long Bone sang for fun, but his audience, a seminar of the Linguistic Institute of America convened on the University of Michigan campus, plied their pencils feverishly, transcribing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Willie's Tales | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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