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Word: surveys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victories over Yale stand out as the high lights of the last four years of Horween coached football at Harvard. A fifth year of service here has been made even more attractive by the bright prospect of a third win against the Blue. A complete survey of Horween's record since 1926 reveals 17 victories, 13 defeats and two ties; Harvard has scored 508 points to its opponents 322. The new regime started inauspiciously with only three victories out of eight starts. In 1927 the new ideas had taken hold as was shown by the record of four victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...trustees, now 29 strong. Besides such generous, longtime trustees as Julius Rosenwald, Martin Antoine Ryerson and Chairman Swift, who all live within a few blocks of the campus, and such illustrious out-of-towners as Charles Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., Harry B. Gear of Commonwealth Edison Co., Charles Revell Holden of the Union Trust Co., Robert L. Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...survey made in these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY CLASSIFIES ALL MATERIAL BODIES IN SEVENTEEN GROUPS | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...groups of super-galaxies are coming to light in the comprehensive survey of external systems, one of the most conspicuous cases being a pair of super-galaxies in Coma-Virgo at a distance of about one hundred and fifty million light years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY CLASSIFIES ALL MATERIAL BODIES IN SEVENTEEN GROUPS | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...course of his speech Senator Brookhart told of a personal survey of the liquor situation along the Canadian border and added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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