Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams, it had a line that averaged 200 Ibs., had reserves three deep. Among its backs were two streaks who could run 100 in 10 flat. And the prize Host Yost wanted most to show off was its 194-lb. halfback, Tom Harmon, who at 20 and only half way through his second year in a Varsity jersey, has been hailed as the No. 1 footballer of the year...
Super-Galaxies & Cepheids. Astronomer Harlow Shapley of Harvard, who loves to systematize the universe, was the first man to find that stellar galaxies like the Milky Way, each containing billions of stars, were sometimes huddled in groups which he calls "super-galaxies." Last week he reported the discovery, made by astronomers at Harvard's observatory in South Africa, of two new, far-off super-galaxies, each of which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow...
...Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.'s Country Home, with 1,648,000 readers. (First was the newly-merged Farm Journal & Farmer's Wife with 2,475,000.) Selling to subscribers at 25? a year, Country Home had long struggled to break even. But in advertising revenues it was way behind: with "5,000 in the first nine months of 1939, it stood sixth on a list that Country Gentleman led with...
...quit. So she collected a group of other aging temple-dancers, started giving commercial performances for visiting tourists. Two years ago Devi Dja's dancers toured Java and French Indo-China, with Devi Dja billed as the "Balinese Pavlowa." Last spring she took her troupe all the way to Europe, planned to go home by way...
...Future of the Social Studies had 17 authors, each of whom proposed a course of study for training citizens. Although no two plans were the same, the authors agreed on many points, e.g.: that the best way to understand the U. S. is to study its regions (such as the Tennessee Valley), that pupils should study causes of World War I, how the British Empire was built, how dictatorships rose, how to make democracy work in the U. S., how to analyze propaganda...