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Word: second (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's Freshman team, who reputedly won eight events in a meet during his preparatory school career, will attempt to score a double in the hurdles and dash. Though up against strong competition, observers think that Don may chase Alan Tolmich across the finish line for a second place ahead of all other New England timber-toppers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Harvard Track Men To Compete in K. C. Games | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

...second in a series of lectures was presented in the Poetry Room of Widener yesterday afternoon when Bartlett J. Whiting, assistant professor of English read and discussed mediaeval love lyrics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITING TALKS ABOUT MEDIEVAL LOVE LYRICS | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

Fritz Machlup, professor of Economics at the University of Buffalo, an authority on monetary problems and business cycles, will be Visiting Lecturer here during the second half-year, it was announced today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRITZ MACHLUP TO REPLACE HABERLER IN SECOND HALF | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

...number of students employed increased by 67 over the previous year. Term time earnings reached the highest point since 1932-33, while summer earnings continued downward for the second successive year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many Job Applicants Given Positions, Plimpton Reports---$288,085 Earned | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

Among the many types of term-time jobs, the largest number of individual placements, 738, went to typists, with chore workers, 241, second. These two groups together earned $4,878, while the largest earnings $30,492, went to 239 waiters including 60 in the Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many Job Applicants Given Positions, Plimpton Reports---$288,085 Earned | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

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