Word: listing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost with awe one scans the list of scholars on whom Harvard will bestow honorary degrees at the Tercentenary of the university next September. Only a few of the names will be recognized even by educated persons, busy as they are with the ordinary activities of life. Many of the fields of study in which these scholars have specialized will be a terra incognita for the average man. What it "the ultra-centrifuge"? And "neo-positivism"? What is meant by "the chemistry of sesquiterpenes...
...list of men going to the I.C.A.A.A.A. Meet in Philadelphia this Saturday have been picked by Coach Jaakko Milkkola. Cretzmeyer and Gerry Downer will run the dashes with Norm Cahners as another possible entry. Milt Green will attempt another triple on Saturday when he takes a shot at both hurdles races and the broad jump...
Next day Leon Blum gave out, against all precedent, a list of men he would like to have in his Cabinet. The list...
...enacting their personal tragedy. At one point Photographers Steiner, Strand and Hurwitz grew fretful because The Plow That Broke the Plains was not forceful enough. When they saw the finished job. however, they withdrew objections. By that time two more notable names were on the film's credit list, on the Federal payroll: Composer Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts), who provided a musical score, and Alexander Smallens, who conducted...
...first week he found himself far down on the list of competitors. The second week he steadied, tied for the lead with 21-year-old Albert Simonson, youngest entrant. Last week Youngster Simonson, still tied with Reshevsky on the last day, lost his final match. Playing with customary meticulousness and gulping huge draughts of ice water, Samuel Reshevsky contented himself with a draw against his last opponent, became U. S. chess champion by a ^ point margin...