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Word: return (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to them, Princeton has a forward line which has played together for three years in Bob Hordley, Horatio Turner and Ralph Wyer. The first two of these currently are on the injured list but are expected to return in time for the start of the league campaign next month. Two veterans are available for the defense posts, Dick Purnell, captain, and Ben Fuller, while John Coleman and Lowrey Kammer are veteran goalies. Other men being counted on are Al Fuller, Senior wing; Al Lane, brother of Princeton's former football captain, and Dick Faxon, Sophomore center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Optimistic Over Winter Sports Prospects | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...information handed out by the tutoring schools, however plentiful, however zealously inculcated, strips down to a warped skeleton of data which is only vaguely related to the essence of a college course. When the fatal hour strikes, the cram-stand scholar will find that, in return for his purchasing power, he has a head-bursting mass of detail. When he is asked to demonstrate his understanding and coordination of the material, he will have nothing but facts--and at the most, trite formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae stringing them together. Maybe these formulae will be enough, but then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORDS TO A NEWER WORLD | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...when the time came to toe the mark, the Alumni found, alas, that they did not have in their number four men capable of swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good, the Alumni fielded a relay team of eight men, each of whom swam a Tollicking one-lap race. Several divers and a breast stroker seem to have found their way into the line-up. Ulen's boys won the event, nevertheless, and in record time. but of course no record...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...largely psychological, Dr. Rathbone puts her pupils through a course in learning how to control their muscles, cultivating the will to relax. When they go to bed, she advises them, they must repeat to themselves: "I will not permit the tensions that have beset me during the day to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Relax | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

North Beach airport ("New York Municipal Airport" officially) was as handsome a subsidy as any city ever granted to a transport business. For rentals from the new airport New York City will get only $315,000 a year, has no expectation of getting any money return for the king's ransom it paid to bring the airlines across the Hudson from Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: North Beach | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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