Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...synthesis of coal, air and water called Nylon, or Fibre 66. Nylon is not yet on the market, but Du Pont has given three girls at the New York World's Fair a pair of Nylon stockings apiece which they have been wearing steadily for the past three weeks. Celanese Corp. of America is also working on a synthetic silk fibre, as yet unnamed...
...with the school, for salaries of professors nominally but not actually on Lincoln's staff. It was estimated that the college had thus diverted $200,000 of Lincoln's funds to its own uses, had given back $59,000 to meet Lincoln's deficits of the past three years...
Amassing a total of 1427 points in House athletic competition over the past year, Kirkland for the second time has won the Straus inter-House athletic trophy, Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced yesterday. Lowell was second in the final standings with 1345 1/2 points...
...book. For the first time the cover will have a Harvard scene as the background on the cover. Although the book will be approximately the same size as that of a year ago, new features have been included. Outstanding is an article on education at Harvard during the past four years. Greater length will be given to a stories on sports and the Houses...
Last week they brought out a big collection of Author Weidman's short stories, The Horse That Could Whistle "Dixie." Published in a wide variety of magazines over the past five years, these 28 stories will not add much to Author Weidman's strong reputation with friendly readers. But they should be good medicine for his noisy, self-appointed censors. The majority deal with the Manhattan East Siders he grew up with, including a few embryo Harry Bogens, but a good number show that Author Weidman's range, human and geographical, goes well beyond the East Side...