Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buying, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, evinced no qualms when he reported to Franklin Roosevelt on the biggest peacetime order for aircraft. Some of the 571 planes ordered, the President heard, would do better than 400 m.p.h.; all are the best to be had. The contract awards (number of planes estimated unofficially...
...number of variable stars were discovered in the systems by Walter Baade and Edmund P. Hubble using the powerful talescope of Mount Wilson Observatory. It was then found that older Harvard sky photographs taken at the South African station had recorded some of these variable stars. Determination of the distance of the new system followed...
...vast number of Freshmen had three examinations over one weekend at mid-years, while some had as many as four. What does the University expect students with such exam schedules to do? Risk failing two out of their four courses, when they could pass by patronizing the Square tutoring schools? Theoretically, I suppose, students should be able to prepare themselves well enough ahead of time to meet any atrocious examination schedule. But, obviously, theory and practice do not always coincide...
Russ Ellis, Orme Wilson, Lyman Snow, Keith Symon, and Ned Spaeth defeated, respectively, Mallinckrodt, Biddle, Everts, Squibb, and Dunham, with Lin Burton losing to Hackett in number three position. In the doubles Wilson and Symon defeated Mallinckrodt and Squibb, and Bill McGinniss and Spaeth won over Hackett and Bannister, as Ellis and Burton bowed to Biddle and Dunham...
...Varsity. They are the cream of an abnormal crop, and their places on the first six are not absolutely secure at the present time. Elbel had a creditable 77 for his medal in his only Varsity match against Bowdoin, and he definitely has the inside track for the number five spot. Behind him is tall Watty Dickerman, ready to withstand the challenge of Lou Roewer and Bill Calfee...