Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goals by Bill Doughty in the first half enabled the Freshman stickmen to edge M.I.T. by a score of 2-1. The first Yardling score came in the first thirty seconds of play. Near the end of the period M.I.T. evened the count...
...first quarter financial report showing the effect on earnings of the 42-day strike engineered by Homer Martin's U.A.W. Net profits for the first three months of 1937 were $44,814,000, a 15% decrease from the $52,464,000 earned during the same period last year. Net sales were substantially equaled: $336,850,000 in 1937 as compared with $341,306,000. At week's end, GM directors met in Manhattan, elected President Sloan their chairman, vice Lammot du Pont, retired. President Sloan's old job fell to General Manager William S. Knudsen...
...DREYFUS CASE-Albert and Pierre Dreyfus-Edited by Donald C. McKay- Yale University Press ($3.75). Vivid record of the 19th Century cause celebre; contains a detailed account by his son of Dreyfus' four-year imprisonment on Devil's Island, an unpublished memoir by Captain Dreyfus covering the period from his second conviction (1899) to his acquittal in 1906, together with numerous letters from prominent Dreyfus partisans...
...Nancy Steele is Missing" which stars Victor McLaglen and Walter Connolly is a depressing though well acted picture. Based on the kidnapping of the daughter of a wealthy New York industrialist, the film covers a period of twenty years during which McLaglen, the kidnapper, is sent to prison for a minor crime...
Almost anything can happen to a track meet. Stars may dip below the horizon for a brief period or for over, others may appear from nowhere to shine in all their brilliance for a week, only to fade back into oblivion. And so it was Saturday. Among the upsets was Columbia's Ben Johnson who was dethroned in the hundred, and failed to even qualify in the broad jump. Johnson's poor performance has been laid by some to a mental condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year...