Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupying the top positions today ever passed up such an opportunity for practical training in their 20's and 30's. Now they are the leaders in their 40's and 50's. Your conference at Yale this spring should offer you a first-rate example of this type of training...
...Associate Justice lauded the three Eastern colleges for their support of this extra-curricular undertaking which he recognized as being "probably the first of its type in the country. Now that your Y-H-P conference, in completing its first three-year run, has proved of great value to the undergraduate bodies, I encourage you to set it up as an annual and traditional event. It carries with it the sympathy and support of many official residents of Washington working in those fields in which your interest is focussed...
WASHINGTON--Copyright, 1938, by United Press--The Navy Department has been informed that Japan is constructing a powerful "hit and run" fleet that may revolutionize naval tactics, the United Press learned tonight. Despite a screen of censorship this government has been advised that the island empire is building a type of super-cruiser that has no match from the standpoints of speed, mobility and striking power...
...Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn for the sake of experiment taped to his leg. The fleas came from rats. And that explained the mode of transmission of a mild type of typhus fever (Brill's disease) which exists endemically on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from New York to Louisiana (TIME...
During the delirious boom years after Reconstruction, when Northern capital poured into the South, and Confederate generals became presidents of railroad and steel companies, two movements opposed to industrialism also got under way. One was the type represented by General Robert Toombs, tousle-haired, unreconstructed, uncompromising old Confederate who refused to take the oath of allegiance and who used to stalk around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when...