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Word: columbia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late. Unhappy Mr. Voorhis, knowing not what he had done, had already voted to publish the names, addresses, titles and salaries of 528 Federal employes, 30 District of Columbia schoolteachers, nurses, social workers, etc., four teachers at Howard (Negro) University, all of whom supposedly were or had been members of the American League for Peace and Democracy. Martin Dies did not pretend that they were Communists. He flatly announced that they were being punished for staying in a League which his committee had exposed as organized and controlled by the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Witches | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...football fans in Michigan's magnificent stadium. They saw the vaunted Michigan backs-(Harmon, Kromer, Westfall and Evashevski)-trot onto the field and in less time than it takes to say Evashevski make sausage meat of a not-so-bad Yale team that had beaten Army and Columbia earlier in the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...that all wheels (each has a separate motor) would turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreadnaught Ditched | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Since this year's Yale game is being played at Soldiers Field, there will also be Saturday classes that weekend. Phelps added. Football Guesses Harvard 0 Princeton 0 Yale 14 Dartmouth 10 Cornell 13 Columbia 0 Penn 17 Navy 0 Michigan 19 Illinois 0 Holy Cross 27 Providence 0 Brown 30 Tufts 0 Manbattan 1 Boston U. 0 Auburu 13 Boston College 7 Fordham 14 Rice 7 Notre Dame 20 Army 7 Amherst 33 Mass. State 0 Pitt 13 Temple 0 Minnesota 13 Northwestern 7 Tennessee 14 L.S.U. 0 Purdue 20 Iowa 12 Ohio State 13 Indians 0 Alabama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Travelers to Tigertown Fail To Rate Excuse From Class | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Before a conference of university presidents in Columbia, Missouri, yesterday, President Conant gave a talk on the "Role of Privately Endowed Institutions in Our Program of Higher Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Makes Speech Before Group of College Presidents | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

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