Word: myth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...myth has it that neither Mr. Weber nor any of his directors had ever been inside Allied's great atmospheric nitrogen works at Hopewell, Va. A more authentic tale is that, while in Germany, Mr. Weber politely refused an invitation to inspect the famed nitrogen fixation plant of I. G. Farbenindustrie because he felt he could not return the courtesy. Instead he tramped some five miles around the plant -outside...
These are all familiar facts and it is well that they should be understood by the sons of Harvard. They are entirely compatible with the inscription on John Harvard's statue. There is no myth to be destroyed. Jerome D. Groene '96. Director of the Harvard Tercentenary Celebration...
...Giants, who had qualified for the play-off three days earlier, concluded their schedule by losing to the Philadelphia Eagles, 6-to-0. When the Giants and the Bears meet in Manhattan's Polo Grounds this week they will really be playing for what sportswriters often, erroneously call a myth: the football championship...
...first line of the inscription is the statement that the statue is a likeness of John Harvard. This is a myth, for since Daniel Chester French, the sculptor, could find no portrait of Harvard, he modeled the figure after Sherman Hoar '82, and gave his figure an idealized head, representing only his concept of the scholarly preacher...
Every one of the 37 men on the squad is in fine shape for the approaching conflict, and is on his toes for a chance to blast the myth of Yale's inspired greatness. Optimism runs through the whole Crimson camp despite the unfavorable predictions that are being made by most of the "inside dopesters...