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Word: p (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty contest slated for yesterday's Harvard-Radcliffe Freshman ten in Brooks House was called off when a Radcliffe Dean objected to the fact that P. B. H. pundits had been taking down the names and telephone numbers of Radcliffe Freshmen for their "records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beauty Contest at Harvard-Radcliffe Tea Off, but Upperclassmen Rate Girls | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...other Mikkola trained men took fourth, fifth, and sixth and seventh place as follows: R. Wing, '40 in 19:06, W. P. Tuttle '40 in 19:37, E. V. Clark '40 in 20:06, and Jim Lightbody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terriers Trounced | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

Thomas W. Lamont '92, a partner of J. P. Morgan in New York City, has presented to the Library a valuable collection of books and manuscripts relating to the Spanish Armada of 1588, library officials announced today. Lamont personally negotiated the purchase of this collection during his recent visit to England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Receives Valuable Gift From Thomas W. Lamont '92 | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...Lamont attended Phillips Exeter Academy before entering Harvard as an undergraduate in 1888. He started work, after getting his A.B. degree, as a reporter on the New York Tribune, but soon entered the banking field, where his rise was phenomenal. In 1911 he joined the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. and since then has served on the boards of many of the nation's largest corporations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Receives Valuable Gift From Thomas W. Lamont '92 | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...charges. At present, for example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha tocopherol, C as ascorbic acid, B² as riboflavin. But since the word vitamin is as popular with laymen as "calory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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