Word: wicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind of junket objective journalists usually turn down. When Guest Sedgwick reported that "the liberal spirit is clearly in the ascendant'' in Franco Spain, he brought upon himself unmeasured condemnation from dozens of liberal pro-Loyalist writers. Smartly, Mr. Sedgwick returned the blows. During Editor Sed-wick's recent travels, his place has been taken by wiry, effervescent Editor Edward Augustus Weeks Jr. La.;t week, 40-year-old "Ted" Weeks assumed the hallowed title of editor-in-chief; 66-year-old Ellery Sedgwick, still spry and still owner of the Atlantic, will continue...
...Head Coach Ed Leader sent his Blue oarsmen to the harbor from the tanks in the Payne Whitney gymnasium about two weeks before the Crimson moved out to the Charles. He has an exceptionally large, promising group, including such veterans as Charley Adsit, Frank Geer, Howard Johnson, and Paul Wick. For several weeks he had available for tank rowing 22 eights...
Last spring Dr. Otto Wick of San Antonio, Tex. won the $500 for a work called The Temples of Peshawur. In the $1,000 competition, under pseudonyms, 40 citizens entered quintets which were judged by Composers Frederick Jacobi and Samuel Gardner, onetime Associate Conductor Modeste Alloo of the Cincinnati Symphony. Last week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake...
...then drawn directly into the combustion chamber. There is no carburetor. The exhaust is almost entirely clear, indicating nearly complete combustion. Although they have no test data to prove it, Solene's sponsors think it will mean fuel economy and increased flying range for airplanes. A wick lamp filled with it burned seven times as long as with kerosene...
...Myron A. Wick '37 has taken a leading part in the formation of the now body. His principal note of emphasis is that it is to form a strictly non-partisan group...