Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wallace Wade's undefeated Blue Devils were favorites to win the Southern Conference championship this year. In the first period of its game against North Carolina last week, Duke led, 6-to-0. In the second period something went wrong; North Carolina's Crowell Little went through right tackle for a touchdown and Tom Burnette kicked the extra point. In the final three minutes North Carolina scored a superfluous touchdown to underline the upset-of-the-week: North Carolina 14, Duke...
...Mexico's taking them, since a Mexican legal principle from the time when the country was a Spanish colony until 1857 held that the Government owned all subsoil rights. From 1884 until 1917, however, Mexican law gave the surface landowner the petroleum rights and it was during this period that the world's great oil companies got their wells drilled into Mexican soil...
...curriculum of Chicago's 37 high schools will be reorganized over a five-year period, he said, so that eventually 80% of the courses they offer will be vocational instead of 80% academic. This means that only a small proportion of Chicago's 130,000 high-school pupils will still be studying exclusively college preparatory subjects. Dr. Johnson declared the schools will try to give students "what they want," but he estimated 80 to 90% will want some vocational training. These will continue to get instruction in a few basic academic subjects, such as English. To make possible...
...England and based on the theory that everyday things are more truly, permanently significant than extraordinary things, this book by a well-known director of historical pageants and historian for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. describes the furniture, clothes, houses, dishes, industries et al. of the U. S. Colonial period. Two more volumes are to come. Numerous illustrations and contemporary drawings...
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...