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Word: northwesterner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Gangster Capone, with a bodyguard of eight including "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, attended the Northwestern-Nebraska football game at Evanston, Ill. This time the players did not greet him. And when the spectators learned of Capone's presence among them they raised a storm of angry booing. "I came to see the game," said Gangster Capone. "I'm going to stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Spectator | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...classroom for open sea. Simmons students of sociology are hopeful that a tete-a-tete with the striking longshoremen of Boston will prove an enlarging experience for all concerned. Following at the tail of this scheme comes the opening of a love clinic by the sociology department of Northwestern University. The head of the department will endeavor to light the way of unhappy lovers whose full moon has waned. In the cause of science he hopes to learn a trick or two himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEY, NONNY, NONNY! | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

...Northwestern love clinic is only one instance of the interest in applied sociology that is manifesting itself in night extension courses everywhere. Northwestern should not take all the credit to itself, for its idea of love clinics is not now. After all, what are sorority houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEY, NONNY, NONNY! | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

Because of fire hazard, Northwestern co-eds are prohibited from smoking in their sorority houses. In the course of agitation for the ban's removal, Jean Van Evera, woman's editor of the Daily Northwestern, pored over the back files of the student publication. As a result of her search, Editress Van Evera was able to give the world a hitherto unknown bit of Willardiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Like Any Other Girl | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, chief of the city's "Secret Six" (antigang organization), told students & faculty of Northwestern University: "I Could have any man I designated killed for $200 or $300. I could have President Scott [Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern] put on the spot but it would probably cost a few hundred dol lars extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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