Word: late
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Kirkland and Leverett met in the next series of matches, the outcome was uncertain until late in the second period when Jess Willard and Bill Emmett both made a goal and left their team with a 4 to 1 victory...
Publisher of the States (and of three other Louisiana papers) was the late Colonel Robert Ewing, a rich, mustachioed, onetime telegraph operator. In 1928 Colonel Ewing supported Huey Long for Governor, and Long won. On the day of Long's inauguration a messenger brought him a note from Colonel Ewing, asking him to add a line or two to his speech. Standing on the steps of the old State House, Huey read it, muttered "- -!'' and tore...
...only five years after Mendel's heredity laws were rediscovered, Dr. Shull (who was then at the Carnegie Institution's station on Long Island) and the late Dr. Edward Murray East (at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) started their experiments with corn hybridization. The Department of Agriculture, foreseeing laborious years of further experiment ahead, was slow to follow their lead. Thoroughgoing research programs at corn-belt stations did not get under way until 1920, and until 1933 practically no hybrid corn was grown commercially. Not until last year were seed supplies plentiful enough for growers to take their...
Probated in London was the will of the late Dr. Sigmund Freud, exiled Austrian father of psychoanalysis. Estate (to his two sons and daughter...
...married Manhattan Lawyer Cornelius J. Sullivan, Mary Quinn kept buying the work of unknown artists. Once she stranded herself in Paris by spending every sou she had with her on a Rouault and a Segonzac. She never had resources like those of her good friends Abby Rockefeller and the late Lizzie P. Bliss, with whom she helped found the Museum of Modern Art in 1929. But Mary Quinn Sullivan's pioneering judgment brought her a notable collection for a notably small...