Word: sub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beaver School's hockey field on Saturday was the scene of a whirlwind contest between the sub-debs of Winsor School and the Dunster House Wildcats. Here the blue blood of the Back Bay was ruthlessly shed by the red-blooded Dunster men in what passed for a field hockey game. While the game was being held up due to the unexplained absence of the ball, the Dunster House Band, disguised by patriarchal beards, paraded up the field playing what was thought to have been "Hit the Line for Harvard," and climaxed its march by successfully hurling a silvered...
...eleven-year sunspot cycles, or one complete magnetic cycle. He found something like the weather cycle he was seeking, but quickly saw that it was of 23 years, not 22. He perceived that a number of periodicities in solar variation which he had discovered years ago were all sub-multiples of 276, the number of months in 23 years. Dr. Abbot plotted the 1875-98 weather cycle at Bismarck against that of 1898-1921, found that they almost coincided, as did the eleven years that have elapsed of the present cycle. Records from other parts of the world gave equally...
Last week President Roosevelt, once a member of Woodrow Wilson's sub-Cabinet, appointed to his sub-Cabinet a Wilson son-in-law. Francis Bowes Sayre, 48, Harvard Law School professor and Commissioner of Correction for Massachusetts, was made Assistant Secretary of State...
...underestimated. They have extremely influential connections in the financial and industrial worlds, the powerful Drug Institute is behind them, and being heavy buyers of advertising they have gained support in that direction. They are, accordingly, able to bring strong pressure to bear, and this has made the sub rosa campaign which they are waging one of the most dangerous attacks to which the administration has yet been subjected...
Died. León Charles Albert Calmette, 70, sub-director of Paris' Pasteur Institute, developer of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guérin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations...