Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Executive Committee of the U. S. Golf Association viewed with alarm the "growing increase in the number of clubs." Last week, what U. S. golfers have been expecting ever since arrived in the form of an announcement: "The preambles to the Rules of Golf have been amended, to read as follows: 'The game of golf consists in a ball being played from the teeing ground into the hole by successive strokes, with clubs (not exceeding 14 in number). . . .'" The new rule will go into effect...
When Pittsburgh was invited to play in the Rose Bowl, Los Angeles sports writers suggested their readers might boycott the game on the ground that the Panthers would provide no opposition, scolded Washington for picking a pushover. If they read the publicity, the Panthers had sense enough to withhold comment until the ball was kicked off to them. The pushovers then began to push...
Mighty Electron- Dr. Birkhoff, who believes that esthetics is closely linked to mathematics and once read some mathematical poetry of his own composition at an A. A. A. S. convention, was elected next year's president of the Association...
Between Christmas and New Year, when students have gone home for their midwinter frolic, university scientists are accustomed to put down their textbooks and laboratory tools and go on a busman's holiday. Soberly they attend dozens of conventions, read thousands of papers, talk shop, elect officers, award prizes, take stock of a year's progress, get their names in the newspapers, mingle with a sprinkling of industrial colleagues. Last week geologists convened in Cincinnati, geographers in Syracuse, mathematicians in Durham, N. C., philosophers in Cambridge, astronomers in Frederick, Md. (see p. 52), anthropologists in Washington, chemists...
AGNES MOORE HEAD went earnestly ahead to take an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin, read books, played serious roles on the Wisconsin stage, only to find herself doing strange things in radio in order to make a very good living. For example she stooges with that lustiest of radio clowns Phil Baker, under the preposterous name of Miss Heartburn. She is "Min" of the Gumps, now on the air and there plenty of clowning in this...