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Word: worthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weight events he will be aided by Steve Brennan, Ed Young, and Bert Litman. In the middle distance events, the point winners are expected to be Al Northrop, if he gets off pro, and Bill O'Connor. For the long ones, Henry Marey, Cyrus DeCoster, and Charley Worth. The pole vault has Emil Dubiel, maybe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

...tacit, probationary ranking. Since its inception the course which the sport has followed has tended to increase rather than diminish, the fears of the doubting Thomases. Rivals like M.I.T. and the Coast Guard failed to provide the kind of opposition the team needed, and with Virginia the only opponent worth its salt, the inadequacy of the rest of the schedule more than justifies throwing the whole intercollegiate show overboard. And although the action of the A.A. does not appear to have been influenced by the Yale flare-up last winter, undoubtedly the final damning evidence in the minds of many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE IN THE PALAESTRA | 12/16/1936 | See Source »

...from the House Master or Senior Tutor, registering in a book, etc. In fact it is a talented feminine guest and a talented host who can satisfy the red tape governing visits of girls to Harvard rooms. And it must be a very feminine, guest who would make it worth all the trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/16/1936 | See Source »

Filed in Cleveland's probate court last week was an estimate of the estate of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, elder of the legendary bachelor brothers whose joint holdings in real estate and 23,000 miles of railroads before Depression were worth $100,000,000. The value of the estate was placed at some $700,000, most of it in life insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Empire's Heirs | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Although he uses characteristically generous language, the main impression conveyed by Dr. Canby is that The Mint is not worth the price asked for it. It is a book of about 200 pages, 9 in. by 10 in., which can be read through in half an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reviewer's Scoop | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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