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Word: vermont (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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James A. Farley: "In my humble judgment President Roosevelt will carry every State in the nation except Maine and Vermont. I sincerely believe this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Guesses | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...three were in Yiddish. In Seattle the play was presented by a Negro cast. Two versions in Italian were scheduled for Newark and San Francisco. Despite Mr. Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action in Cuba. A fat advance sale in most cities indicated that It Can't Happen Here would get a thorough hearing. In Manhattan speculators were selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: WPA, Lewis & Co. | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Overanxiety for children, apart from actual physical impediments to childbirth, is a great cause of childlessness, declared Director Henry Farnham Perkins of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont. In the Eugenical News he cited this evidence: "The relation of the endocrine secretions to the reproductive functions is beginning to be understood by biochemists and physiologists. It is known that a very delicate acid-base equilibrium is essential for conception. This equilibrium is very easily upset, and nothing seems to affect it more quickly and decisively than psychological disturbances. . . . The thyroid gland is especially prompt in its reaction to psychological stimuli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Induction | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

While the Harvard team takes a weekend off, six other cross country teams will race over the Charles River Course in the Harvard Open Intercollegiate Cross Country Run this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The six colleges competing are Bowdoin, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Springfield, Vermont, and Boston College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Cross Country Teams to Race Here This Afternoon | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

...College, the graduate schools, and the faculty, numbers well over 13,000 men. Even allowing for a small percentage of minors under voting age, Harvard polls more votes than Augusta, Maine, or Santa Fe, New Mexico, and over twice as many as the capital city of Vermont. It is, moreover, an unusual bloc, representing almost complete freedom of choice and a devoted interest in political affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "X MARKS THE SPOT" | 10/14/1936 | See Source »

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