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Word: michigan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's unofficial record (9 4/10 sec.) for the 100 yd. dash, traveled about 1,200 miles to Denver for the 54th annual senior track meet of the National A. A. U. There, waiting to beat him, were Eddie Tolan, little bespectacled Negro from the University of Michigan and Western Conference champion; Frank Wykoff, defending A. A. U. champion; Claude Bracey, 1928 N. C. A. A. champion; Russell Sweet, Pacific A. A. U. champion; Cy Leland, Southern Collegiate champion. But George Simpson never ran. Two days before the race which somebody christened "the century of the century," practicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Century of the Century | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. By Dr. Clarence Cook Little, resigned President of the University of Michigan; Mrs. Katherine Andrews Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

TIME will continue to eye Michigan's Vandenberg; will report when his oratorical reputation reaches in Washington the height it has achieved in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Next he established his Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, with $2,500,000 endowment. The Fund has in its two and a half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities all got their wind tunnels from the Fund. After Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the North Pole (1926) the Fund sent his plane around the U. S. to focus attention on the development of aircraft and the need for municipal airports. The Fund sent Col. Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

University of Detroit Fred Warren Green, Michigan's Governor LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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