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Word: opening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many courses. Psychologists at Harvard have worked out an excellent system of marking for large classes. Yet with pitifully few exceptions, the other large courses have failed to take advantage of their refined and scholarly research. They prefer to go their own antiquated gait, leaving their marking system open to chance and injustice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FITTING THE MOULD | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...Phoenix Open, 27-year-old Byron Nelson posted a 36-hole total of 130 (65-65), lowest in the history of U. S. professional play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eight Below | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...chalked up in the third round of the Texas Open by Harold ("Jug") McSpaden (in a warm-up round he shot 59). In the Miami Four-Ball Tournament Partners Ralph Guldahl & Sam Snead played nine holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eight Below | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Most audacious of astronomical showmen is James Stokley, director since 1933 of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. Big, stooped Mr. Stokley (rhymes with Annie Oakley) this week arrives in Pittsburgh to become director of the Buhl Institute of Popular Science and Buhl Planetarium (to open this fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planetarian | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open cars for a Bagdad Moslem who will rent them to Mecca-bound pilgrims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Expensive Bodies | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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