Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wall Street long ago got acclimated to the oratorical williwaws blowing north from Congress. But last week, even Wall Streeters' tough ears tingled. Oklahoma's bulldog-jawed Democrat Lyle Boren, head of a sub-committee probing the Holding Company Act, had unearthed an amazing "conspiracy" on the part of some of Wall Street's staidest investment bankers and financiers. The plot, said he, was to socialize the $18 billion U.S. electric utility industry and make "many billions" in the process...
Thus, announced the War Department last week, death came early last month to the first victims of Japanese bombing on the U.S. mainland. And Chief Lyle F. Watts of the U.S. Forest Service made public some facts and estimates about the ingenious workings of the Jap bomb-bearing balloons (TIME, June...
First prize went to Warren Hennrich for "Delights in Xanadu," a group of poems; second prize was awarded to Lyle Glazier for "The Adoloscont" and three poems; and third prize was awarded to Lieutenant Herbert J. Kramer for a poem entitled "33129086--Decased...
Cheating. Nearly half (46.5%) of 241 pupils in Oregon's Corvallis Junior High School recently grabbed what looked like a fine chance to cheat.* That was in line with other studies of student honesty (TIME, June 19, 1939). But this study, by Lyle Johnson of the Eastern Oregon College of Education, went ahead to look for causes. Some findings, published in the high-school teachers' monthly, Clearing House...
Amid the drudgery and Freshman jitters at November hours came the great moment of the season as Comeford-to-Lyle did the trick for Harvard in the closing seconds of the Princeton tussle as the 19-14 win subdued a favored Tiger eleven...