Word: topped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade, under the regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American...
...long, designed and built by Chicago's Armour Institute at a cost of $150,000. It has a machine shop and a photographic darkroom, can carry an airplane on its back. Rolling on four retractable, rubber-tired wheels ten feet in diameter, it cruises at 10 m.p.h. (top speed 25 m.p.h.), can straddle and cross crevasses 15 ft. wide...
...once sold score-cards), knobby bathers by Lake Michigan. Says he: "The shabbier parts of Chicago are what intrigue me." Less intrigued is Mrs. Frank Granger Logan ("Sanity in Art"), who stormed "It isn't worth a nickel," when a Bohrod picture of a filling station won top honors and her $500 prize at the 1937 Chicago Art Institute exhibition...
Schubert: Symphony in C Major (London Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 12 sides). First top-notch recording of one of the greatest, and longest, romantic symphonies...
Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 12 sides). A top-rank pianist and No. 1 Debussy-boy, massive, snorting, French-born German Pianist Gieseking completes the finest set of Debussy piano performances yet recorded...