Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sharing the spotlight in the Harvard runaway were Captain Rusty Greenhood in the dive and Eric Cutler who copped first in the 220 and the 440. The Crimson leader turned in his best low-board performance of the year in rolling up 117.62 points...
Last week, however, an hour came when the spotlight unavoidably played on him. He marched in to see Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and delivered to Japan in the name of the U. S. a vigorous diplomatic kick in the pants. The booting took the form of a long, strong reply to Japan's "unresponsive" answer last November to Secretary Hull's protest against Japan's slamming the open door in China to U. S. trade. Its chief points...
Last week the American Association for the Advancement of Science held its winter convention in Richmond, Va. With an attendance of 7,000 and 1,800 papers to be presented, the multiple preoccupations of science had to share the spotlight. On hand to see that the pituitary got its share of attention, however, was a pituitary master: Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island...
Sometimes a very little college has a very big professor, and for a moment it flutters in the spotlight as students from far off crowd in to hear this man who for some reason of his own chooses to teach there. Maybe he likes the climate. But finally he retires, and with him the college into the obscurity from which he had brought...
Cotton Bowl. Dallas is a Johnny-come-lately. Its Cotton Bowl is only one year old. To shove it into the spotlight this year, Dallas promoters planned a double-header Bowl game (one the day before and one the day after New Year's) between four of the five top teams of the country. But when Texas Christian, of neighboring but envious Fort Worth, refused to come to its party, notwithstanding a proposed junket to the New York World's Fair next year as an added inducement, the Cotton Bowl Association announced that it would stage only...