Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading members of one of the strongest Crimson pistol teams in recent years are L. Guy Huntley '37, captain; A. Harmon Hall '38, manager; Spencer D. Howe, ocC, high man for the team in the Metropolitan Pistol League; and Horace C. Arnold '37. Altogether the team has ten or eleven good shots, "more than ever before", according to Captain Bixby...
...Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, whose "Collected Poems" won the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1934, Archibald MacLeish '19, author of the verse play, "Panic", now running in London after a successful season in New York, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English and consultant on the recent motion picture production of "Romeo and Juliet...
...Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into a food similar to our bologna of today. It didn't taste...
Married. Francis Edward Kelly, 33, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; and Marion McDonald, 20, of East Boston, his nurse during a recent attack of influenza; in Dorchester, Mass...
...tropical, the gamut of geography, hundreds of races. From prehistoric times to the present, its upper reaches have given men gold. (Estimated annual revenue in Ethiopia: $400,000.) And its recorded history is the world's oldest: 6,000 years. The Nile has two sources, both undiscovered until recent times. Source of the White Nile, Lake Victoria Nyanza, was found by Speke (1862); source of the Blue Nile, near Lake Tana in Ethiopia, by Samuel Baker (1864). At Khartoum the two branches join, go on to form in the desert the oasis of Egypt...