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Word: lights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to be easy to find the individual who can make Germanic Culture live as did Kuno Francke, but it is to be hoped that the committee's plan of several short tenures of the chair during the first few years of its existence will bring to light some man worthy and willing to take a permanent place in this position: The sooner such a permanent incumbent on be found the better, for the supply of possible candidates for such a place is strictly limited as the difficulty of annually finding men for the Norton chair has shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE KUNO FRANCKE CHAIR | 10/8/1929 | See Source »

Sharkey v. Loughran. There is a rule in New York that a fighter who is champion in his class must renounce his title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fisticuffs | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Died. William Reed, 19, son of Professor Elmer Bliss Reed of Yale; off the Maine coast in Frenchman's Bay; of drowning. Three weeks ago he was lost with his sloop in a squall. The body was found by a lobster fisherman off Egg Rock Light after 150 lobster boats, two yachts, two seaplanes had searched many days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...fatuous title-on the stage Diversion, a play by John Van Druten-is a compact and legitimately dramatic study of adolescent love. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. acts a young medical student, ambitious son of a London doctor, who on a holiday meets an experienced and beautiful woman of light fancy. Back in London she tires of her caprice, and his infatuation increases in direct ratio to her boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement is softened by having the woman recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Forty-one players saw service in Saturday's game. No injuries were incurred and Coach Horween plans three hard scrimmages this week in an attempt to from out the flaws brought to light against Bates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN COASTS TO UNIMPRESSIVE WIN | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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