Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into his father's office, from whose walls a row of New Deal dignitaries look down, David ("Tommy") Stern 3rd moved last week, becoming general manager of Philadelphia's rambunctious Record. Short, red-faced, 28 and popping with ideas, Tommy Stern intimately resembles his father in appearance and energy. For many a moon he has been itching to have a paper all his own, has bid for the Harrisburg Telegraph and Providence Star-Tribune. Now he has agreed to stay put for a year on the Record. If Tommy proves as big as his job, J. David Stern...
High scorers of the current major-league professional hockey season are the Boston Bruins, with a total of 32 points in 23 games. Low scorers are the World Champion Detroit Red Wings, with a total of 13 points in 25 games-an average of a little over a point a week...
...miles in diameter, could contain a million bodies the size of the earth. Yet the sun, though of higher than average luminosity, is rather on the small side as stars go, being officially classed as a "yellow dwarf." For a really big star astronomers look to Antares, a red supergiant 400,000,000 miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank...
...SCIENTIST on dispatches from Calcutta, but as chemists sifted the reports last week such statements seemed overenthusiastic. Specialists were more impressed by Dr. Baly's opinion that natural photosynthesis is carried out in two steps-the first in blue light of short wave length, the second in red light of long wave length...
...head of a long table facing a row of radical poets, proletarian novelists and dramatists, defenders of civil liberties, pamphleteers, listening uncomfortably to their speeches that welcomed him to their ranks. Said New Masses Editor Granville Hicks: "When I read Work of Art I wondered-is Red Lewis with us or against us? But when I read It Can't Happen Here, I knew-Lewis is with...