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Word: pros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly worth a 90-mile drive to and from Fitton Field, Worcester, yesterday afternoon to find out just why big league baseballers are so much better than collegiates. The pros looked not much better in the field, not much better with the bat, and not much trickler. In fact, the Boston Red Sox were beaten 3-2 by Holy Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Red Sox Stars Stumble Before Inspired Holy Cross Nine by 3-2 Score | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

...Advancing Front of Science, Gray does not confine himself to physics. It is, he says, "an attempt to report news rather than summarize history." In it readers will find such various nuggets as the heredity map in the giant chromosomes of the salivary glands of the fruit fly; the pros & cons of the expanding universe; sensitizing dyes, such as kryptocyanine, which make photographic emulsions sensitive to light far beyond the bounds of the visible spectrum; the measurement of the proton-proton reaction within the atom-the force which binds the world by holding atomic nuclei together; researches at Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Understanding Without Stars | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Soon the world read reams of Geneva dispatches in which were argued the pros and cons of what it would be best for China to do-that is, how Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo could best put their case. The flattered correspondents and the Chinese diplomats soon agreed, among other things, that China must not accuse Japan of making "war" since such an accusation might well force President Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act, and from this China would suffer far more than Japan. By the time the Assembly actually met this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Cheering Section | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...professors of the Law School will discuss the pros and cons of the Roosevelt court plan in a symposium on Friday night. The hectagonal debate is being held under the auspices of the Law School Union and is expected at this time to be held in the large court room of Langdell Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW PROFESSORS WILL DEBATE COURT CHANGE | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

...Mohammedan present, Dictator Mussolini received the homage of an assemblage of tribesmen led by Mohammed Abd-el-Gheder who cried: "All peoples will declare that your visit to Libya has bound the East to the West and has united Islam and Italy! Allah, through you, is restoring peace and pros perity to mankind." Off in a motorcade of 60 cars whirled Mussolini & Balbo, the ten-day program including major Mohammedan homage at the Arch of Triumph* newly erected at the halfway point on the motor road, then opening of the annual Tripoli Sample Fair by Il Duce. a dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito to Balboland | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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