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Word: northwestern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus far spent $1,250,000, parceling out money to groups best equipped to administer its program. Chief contributor to the National Safety Council, which educates the public, the Foundation also helps the traffic engineering research of men like Yale's Miller McClintock, the personnel-training of Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Money for Safety | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago, Henry Shull registered for his junior year at Northwestern University, planned to continue paying his way through college with prizes he has won in 59 contests during the past five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...While Northwestern waited for its potential jackpot, Freshman Bill de Correvont who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High School last year, to join the varsity, the Midwest lacked headline heroes. Minnesota appeared to be the team to beat. Perilously close behind in popular appraisal, however, were Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Northwestern and even Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Third Saturday | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

What Broker Ferebee started was a nationwide golf-marathon craze-173 holes, 196 holes, 231 holes, 235 holes, posted almost daily by husky young caddies, schoolboys and even a Chicago housewife out to prove that 144 holes from dawn to dusk was nothing extraordinary. When a Northwestern University freshman played 301 holes, putt-putting around on a scooter bike, J. Smith Ferebee, nettled by such theft of his thunder, announced that he was embarking on a golf marathon to end all golf marathons: 600 holes in four days-a minimum of 72 holes in each of eight different cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf Marathoners | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Ohio State v. Indiana (Sat. 1 :45 p.m., NBC-Blue) football game from Columbus. MBS at 2:30, followed by Kansas v. Northwestern game from Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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