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Word: woodruffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time in 13 attempts ; making the teams of 29 rival colleges look like Sunday School picnickers; with a total of 711/2 points, highest score in the history of the meet; at Randall's Island, N. Y. Brightest individual star, however, was Pitt's long-striding Negro Johnny Woodruff, who won both the quarter-mile and half-mile for the third year in a row, a feat no one had accomplished since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...University battalion will be reviewed by Major General James A. Woodruff, commanding officer of the First Corps Area, and by President Conant and the University Overseers' visiting committee to the Department of Military Science. The official inspection and report on the unit will be made by Lieutenant Colonel Oscar I. Gates, Seventh Field Artillery, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Students Will Be Reviewed Next Wednesday | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

...airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical and Radio Engineering. Under President Woodruff's leadership, $18,000 was appropriated by the League for the new station, WIAW (Founder Maxim's old private call letters, recently assigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: CQ Conn | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

David J. De Kruif -- Miss Elizabeth Woodruff, Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 Girls Coming to '41 Jubilee Tonight | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

...Dohr [April 11] is going to take Mr. Brown [of Johns-Manville] to task because he sold $31 book value stock at $100 when the market was $150, he might ask Mr. Woodruff of the Coca-Cola Co. why his stock is selling at $117 when it has a book value of less than 87. Or he might look into the matter of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit common which sells around $8 a share despite a book value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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