Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania Central Airlines, for having had "neither a passenger nor a crew fatality during its recorded period of operation, 1930-36, with an accumulation of 36,177,210 passenger-miles and 8,951,377 miles flown...
...paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole. Volatile, ambitious Tony Fokker wanted to make Teterboro the No. 1 U. S. airport. He might have succeeded had not Knute Rockne's death...
...Detroit net. To the crowd it looked like a goal. Referee Mickey Ion ruled that, since he had blown his whistle to stop play before the puck went in, the goal did not count. A goal for the Rangers would have tied the score, 1-all, in the second period of the deciding game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, hockey's world championship. Referee Ion's decision, accepted after a five-minute altercation, meant instead that the Rangers had to take increasingly dangerous risks to tie the score. While they tried to do so, Detroit...
...morbid depression which was the result of the Great War came a torrent of cynical and hopeless literature. The theater was beseiged with it, and even today the relies of that grim period linger on in all the arts. Little of this cynicism will be "noted or long remembered" except as something which typified the Twenties. But a few works stand out as having truly lasting qualities. One of these is Heinz Liepmann's "Nights of an Old Child" which has been translated from its original German by A. Lynton Hudson...
Briefly, a survey course, delivered by a capable lecturer, and covering the period from Homer to Demosthenes, is what is now needed. There are still many men who, having neither the time nor the inclination to learn the Greek language, still wish to become familiar with the literature and life of this era. For them as well as for the enrolled concentrators in the classics such a course would be a timely and popular addition to the roster of courses now available...