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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three all time greats will perform in the Stadium, pits and on the Stadium cinders. Georgetown's gargantuan Al Blozis, a Sophomore, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall and who weighs 240 pounds, and has a well nigh perfect physique, may develop to be one of America's greatest weight men. He already holds the American record in the 160-pound shot put at 55 ft. 10 1/2 in., and he may break this record, the I.C.A.A.A.A. record, and perhaps Jack Torrance's World Record in the Stadium pit, which this week has been enlarged to accommodate Blozis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. of C., Penn State, Pitt Clash on IC4A Track at Stadium Friday; Lightbody Crimson Hope | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

Einstein's relativity, which burst on the world as a mathematical vision but which has accumulated many astronomical proofs through the years, explains mass, gravity, inertia, space and time, but not atoms and electric particles, which seem to perform in a bizarre, non-relativistic world of their own. Quantum mechanics, the mathematics of the atom, has developed apart from relativity. Physicists of broad beam feel, however, that this should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Baffled Sage | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Wandered out to the Jubilee the other night and had the pleasure of hearing one of the best young bands yet formed. Will Bradley's bunch, with Ray Mckinley playing drums, are as well-rounded and perform as smoothly as almost any of the big top bands...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...open letter addressed to the "Young Men of Harvard from some of the Older Men of Harvard," 34 members of the class of 1917, the so called war class, exhorted the under-graduates to remember that they must perform their duties as citizens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI-WAR FEELING DEPLORED IN LETTER FROM CLASS OF '17 | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

...Milestones, p. 76 of the April 22 issue, and People, p. 56 of the same issue, are the cuts not surrounded by the material which is related to them? In Milestones, for instance, the picture of Mr. & Mrs. Jessel & Friend (thank God I wasn't asked to perform that marriage ceremony) is on one page-surrounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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