Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stronger in the second half of a season as well as of a game. Stimulated by last week's scare, it is now, according to most experts, an even-money bet to get through its fourth successive undefeated season. To do so, after Michigan, Minnesota must beat Purdue, Northwestern, Iowa, Texas and Wisconsin...
Best known mechanical device to detect lying is the polygraph, perfected by Professor Leonarde Keeler of Northwestern University. A subject attached to the polygraph who tells an untruth supposedly registers changes in blood pressure, pulse and respiration which are indicated by a needle jiggling on a graph. Tested last week in Manhattan was another such instrument-the psychogalvanometer. The invention of tall, burly Father Walter G. Summers, S.J., Ph.D., head of Fordham University's department of psychology, the psychogalvanometer works not on the heart and lungs but on the minute electrical currents coursing through the body...
Cried Dean Emeritus John Henry Wigmore of Northwestern University's Law School: "The Mitchell report is the most important event in 100 years of Federal justice. But," added this great authority on the law of evidence, "it should have restated the rules of evidence. . . . The law of evidence in our Federal Courts ... is inferior to that of any of the 50 States and Territories-not only inferior but far inferior." Despite this weighty endorsement most A.B.A. delegates received the Mitchell report without comment...
...comets were visible to the naked eye last week. The fact was of scientific interest but the show was not spectacular. Discovered by a Japanese amateur named Sigura Kaho, one comet was a tiny blob hanging in the northwestern sky for a few minutes after sundown. The other was the comet found two months ago by Leslie C. Peltier, famed amateur of Delphos, Ohio (TIME, June 7). Laymen who hunted out the Peltier object, hoping to see a big, bright feather similar to Halley's comet in 1910, were disappointed. Unless they had binoculars they saw nothing...
...China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having mapped and explored a great section of New Spain. An energetic, restless, fast-traveling administrator, he introduced wheat-growing and cattle-ranching into the desert areas, became one of the most vital of the Jesuits who kept up the great chain of missions from the head...