Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strain on players' hearts. Last week in New Orleans, a game between Loyola and Centenary was tied 35-10-35 at the end of the first half, 67-10-67 at the end of the second. Centenary finally won 78-10-72, after a five-minute extra period. The score was tied 17 times, the lead seesawed 26 times. The players got along all right, but two spectators fainted from excitement...
...again when he was 14 (1855), his father, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast Table), initiated campaigns to make doctors wash their hands before attending women in labor. And it was Judge Holmes who ruled from the Massachusetts bench in 1884 that "during the gestation period, the child is part of his mother's bowels," and therefore is not an individual capable of being injured in an accident...
...headline form the news looked bad-not only had bank failures in the last six months of 1937 almost doubled but in that period FDIC's earnings failed for the first time to cover its operating expenses. This did not reflect two important facts, however: 1) for the whole year FDIC earnings exceeded expenses by $1,000,000; 2) FDIC does not consider as earnings the assessments paid by insured banks. Besides its $1,000,000 net earnings on operations it collected $38,800.000 of such assessments in 1937. Last week FDIC's white-shocked Chairman Leo Thomas...
...from an old document, with a common contemporary spelling of the bard's name-William Shakspere-plainly written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper in the same period. Photographic enlargements permitted minute comparisons with known Shakespearian signatures. Ultraviolet photographs established the type of pen used; infra-red photographs showed no tracings beneath the ink. Shakespeare himself, said Professor Lewis, wrote that name. But where the paper came from, who owned it, how it reached Salt Lake City, what...
When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for its warm, poetic savor. Not only in Brooks's book but in lesser works like Odell Shepard's Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Branson Alcott, readers can catch whiffs of a morning freshness in the cultural air, when poets and novelists no less than practical citizens took on themselves lifetime projects, came back to work unshaken after personal tragedy or public disgrace...