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Word: william (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Lafayette College's President William Mather Lewis hit upon a plan to keep reunioning alumni sober. He invited them to free classes where they might refresh their minds and their respect for Alma Mater. Last week many another U. S. college had adopted Dr. Lewis' idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Sober Reunions | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

That twins make ideal doubles players was demonstrated last week when William and Chester Murphy, identical twins, wound up their tennis careers at the University of Chicago. Playing in the Big Ten ennis championships at Chicago, the solemn-faced Murphys outplayed the star doubles teams of eight rival colleges, won the doubles title without losing a set. In three years of varsity tennis (including three Big Ten championships), they had never lost a doubles match, had dropped only two sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doubles | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Visitors to Magnolia Cemetery in Spartanburg, S. C., can read on a gravestone: In memory of William Walker, A.S.H. Died Sept. 24, 1875, in the 67th year of his age. He was a devoted Husband and kind Father. A consistent Baptist 47 yrs. Taught music 45 yrs. The Author of 4 Books of sacred music. He rests from his labors. He died in the triumphs of faith. Sing praises unto the Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...William Walker, called "Singin' Billy," was an itinerant singing master who made the rounds of hundreds of singing schools in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Born in Elizabethgrad in the Russian Ukraine, the son of a Jewish school teacher, Alex Gumberg migrated to the U. S. by himself at 15, became a licensed pharmacist. But he kept in touch with Bolshevik doings and returned to Russia after the Kerensky revolution. There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Confidential Adviser | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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