Word: thirteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Divinity School, he said, does not accept for registration any applicant planning to enter college teaching, even in the field of religion. The eighty students last year represented thirteen different church denominations, he said...
...English . . . Augusta Tucker's "Miss Susie Slagle's" recounts the story of a student's boarding house in Baltimore . . . Stephen Vincent Benet's "Tales Before Midnight" again attest to his ability as a writer of the fantastic and disturbing short story. More intriguing stories in the manner of "Thirteen O'Clock...
...Thirteen dual meets, one less than last year, are scheduled for the Varsity swimming team this winter. The only newcomer among the opponents of the Crimson tankmen is M. I. T., which has been absent from the Harvard pool for more than five years...
...Good evening, men," Whitsitt may say, "tonight's feature story is headed: 'Thirteen incorrigibles shipped to Siberian stir.' " Siberia, in Michigan stir talk, is Marquette prison. Other items may have a warmer touch. Prisoner So-and-so lost a picture of his wife in the textile factory. Reward for its return: two packs of cigarets. Prisoner Such-and-such will swap a pair of $12 shoes, which don't fit him, for 16 packs of cigarets. Whitsitt used to broadcast complaints and comments on prison regimen, too, but nowadays he has to stick to straight news...
Murphy and his fellow researcher, Minot, are members of the select group of thirteen men who now represent the U.S. as Nobel Prize science winners...