Word: nineteen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same purpose. Ostensibly the University contributes to this fund but an examination of the records would probably show that this is very meager if not nonexistent. From 1929 to 1932 as few as seven students, including both upperclassmen and graduate students, received aids and as many as nineteen. The average amount received by these students was two hundred dollars regardless of group rating and evidence of high scholarship. From these facts it is obvious that the entire annual income of the Buckley fund and the Cambridge aid was not used...
Spurning lifeboat and life-preservers. Lieutenant Ulm and two companions last week climbed aboard Stella Australis, took off from Oakland on the 2,400-mi. water hop to Honolulu. Nineteen hours later, off-course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy...
...signers, nineteen of them college professors including ten from Dartmouth, stated that they "believe, after consideration of the cases, that there is no reason why there should be any further delay in the only course which the facts justify," i.e., dismissal. The judge will charge the jury when court opens this morning in Pemberton Square. A decision is expected in short order...
...Harvard Medical School was started by Dr. John Warren '71, and the raised pews of the Chapel made an almost perfect amphitheatre for him for nineteen years. In 1802 the chapel was divided into two stories with a staircase well added on the East or Yard side to reach the second floor. At the same time, the curious brick porch with a crenellated top seen in old engravings, was put up at the West end. The first floor was composed of two damp, ill-lighted rooms for chemical lectures and laboratory work, while the upper floor was used for anatomical...
Superstitious peasants expected all this good fortune before the first buds broke on the carefully pruned canes last spring. It is ancient legend that wines will be great in any year in which there are two full moons in a given calendar month. Nineteen-Thirty-Four was doubly blessed. Full moons shone Jan. 1 and 30, again March...