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Dark, well-knit, young Beveridge Webster is a good swimmer, takes pride in his tennis, likes to play poker or bridge with his great good friend Igor Stravinsky. He boasts of the little slam he once made against Sidney Lenz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maestro & Prodigy | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...human material of the colonies, those "lascivious sonnes, masters of bad servants, and wives of ill husbands" whose doings fill the criminal records and who were occasionally punished by being nailed to the pillory by the ears. Spies moved freely among them, since Spain maintained a well-knit espionage apparatus to keep informed on the progress of the feeble British outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Origins | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...SHIPBUILDERS-George Blake-Lippincott ($2.50). Well-knit tale, a little on the sentimental side, about the decline of Glasgow shipbuilding as it hit a humane employer and a group of his one-time employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Miss America that many people think he has done nothing else since he was born in the landlocked town of Mapleton, Iowa, 55 years ago. Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last week the Brothers Wood let the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wood Workers | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...Biology Departments proper, and that considered inadequate, all other courses are supplied by the Chemistry and Biology Departments This latitude of courses means that the tutorial work must pull the field together, and despite the recent efforts of Professors Edsall and Ferry to make the field a more closely knit body, many of the tutors and most of the concentrators still find it hard to make the subject matter a cohesive unit. The lack of a biochemistry laboratory, leaving all "lab" work to be done in the Chemistry and Biology Divisions, further aggravates this situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 5/21/1936 | See Source »

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