Word: second
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many people know, a wet bulb thermometer is a thermometer whose bulb is surrounded by a knitted cotton tube, with its end dipped in water which keeps the bulb moist. In a draft (about three feet per second or over) evaporation reduces the temperature, and from the amount of such reduction and the reading of the dry bulb thermometer the humidity is computed...
Careers: His first career, as a farmer on the Texas plains, was climaxed when, aged 13, he picked 413 Ib. of cotton in one day. His second began when he gave up teaching philosophy at his alma mater, the University of Texas, to study philosophy at the University of Chicago. In the next eight years he won a full professorship, a reputation among philosophers for the originality, skepticism, intellectual geniality of his editorship of the International Journal of Ethics. His third career, as publicist and politician, blossomed around the University's radio Round Table which he helped found...
...first returns began coming in, Candidate Camp ran a pathetic third. Swooping along in first place with the votes of his farmer friends, to whom he had promised "40 acres and a mule," was wild-eyed, unbrushed, gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, former (1933-37) Governor. In second place by the early counts, but running strong, was the Purge-marked incumbent, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George. Before the later, urban returns showed the election's true trend, Candidate Talmadge & friends began to celebrate loudly. "The only way George or his supporters could carry Georgia," Mr. Talmadge announced, "would...
...present Hodder will continue as coach of the second Freshman Football team. In the spring the new hockey coach has charge of the golfers, who do their divot-digging at the Belmont Country Club...
...most startling events of the last two weeks have been: (1) the shifting of Cliff Wilson back to his old post of blocking back, undoubtedly due to the fact that chief Boston is not in top shape to handle the position alone; (2) the loss of Rick Hedblom, second center last year who was slated to become a first string guard this year, due to injuries; (3) the three-cornered fight between Ben Smith, Mike Cohen, and Joe Gardella for the bucking back post, so capably filled last year by Vernon Struck...