Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This will be just another meet for the Ulenmen as they speed preparations for their league debut against the Pennsylvania Quakers next Saturday. Victims of a 38 to 37 upset at the hands of the powerful Brown Bruins, the Crimson tankers have been practicing steadily during the examination period and should not be stale despite the competition layoff...
...incoming 1940 Board. President, Cleveland Amory, Managing Editor Caleb Foote, Business Manager J. Francis Dammann, Jr., Editorial Chairman Ellsworth S. Grant, Executive Editor John T. McCutcheon, Jr. and Photographic Chairman Roger W. Loewl will read reports of the activities of their respective departments in the 1938-1939 period...
...sagacious Curator Paul Rivet, this exhibition is a worthy successor to the old Trocadéro's exhibit of comparative sculpture. Best idea: arranging showcases like text and footnotes in a book, one line of cases along left walls giving a bird's-eye impression of each period of each civilization, while other cases standing out from distant right walls contain complete museum collections. Smartest mechanical innovation: a show case which displays any one of nine related objects at the touch of a button, a great improvement on the usual system of showing one each month...
...though holding the patent system largely responsible for the great U. S. fertility of inventions, Commissioner Coe had suggestions for improving the laws. Most important: 1) creation of a single court of patent appeals; 2) reduction from 44 to 20 years of the maximum period "between the filing of an application and the expiration of the resultant patent...
American Agriculture enjoyed relative prosperity during the period 1921-1929, and this was due largely to the fact that the number of farmers was decreasing about 5 per cent while the rest of the population increased by 14 per cent, Dr. Davis said...