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Word: northwesterner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman in the street was directing traffic eight lines wide. On the corner loitered a small-town policeman out of work, and a medicine show barker. A man who had worked his way through Northwestern University and was now driving a taxi, waited for a fare. A shipping clerk waited for a bus. Among the thousands thronging by were a housewife, a sporty realtor and his friend, a petty municipal official. In a luggage store across the street a hotel clerk asked a salesman to show him the men's room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conclusions of a Crowd | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Sometime or other, TIME seems to touch the present or past interest or hobby of everyone of its readers. The story of taking men out of a pool in an unconscious condition takes me back to the time of 1910 to 1914 where old-style water polo at Northwestern University and the Chicago Athletic Association was still a game for real waterdogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...second course, on Tuesday afternoons over WEAF, will be taught by Osbourne McConathy, onetime music professor at Northwestern Universitv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Air Lessons | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...last year. The times for the 50 and 100 yard swims of 24 1-5 and 54 1-5 seconds respectively, both held by Captain-elect B.S. Wood '33, are both only 1-5 of a second slower than the pool records set last year by Albert Schwartz of Northwestern. The Crimson relay quartet in hanging up a mark of 1:30 in the Dartmouth meet came only 1 1-4 seconds short of equaling the pool record set last year by Michigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/24/1931 | See Source »

Because of its elaborate developments in Northwestern Africa and South America, Aeropostale's troubles have long been pyramiding. A deficit estimated at $2,000,000 is now carried in its books. Everything depended upon renewal of the government subsidy which, for 1931, was to be about $3,000,000. Fortnight ago the debacle occurred: the Chamber of Deputies rejected the subsidy. That was the signal for runs upon the three Paris banks which had well over $7,000,000 invested in Aeropostale. They had recently advanced great sums in the expectation of the new subsidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Aeropostale's Plight | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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