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Word: epsilon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alpha Delta Phi en masse. His complaint: Sigma Nus, Chi Psis and Alpha Delts had taken to whiling away evenings by shouting obscene names at one another. Worse, a fraternity man was caught in the act of painting on the sidewalk in front of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house: "Poo on A E Phoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greeks' Week | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...When blind Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost retired in 1932, Struve succeeded him as Yerkes' director. His valuable and multifarious work there includes discovery of the biggest star known to man-an almost transparent body four billion miles across which like a monstrous ghost accompanies the well-known star Epsilon Aurigae (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Where, How & Why? | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Hanover the Lowell hoopmen bowed to Delta Kappa Epsilon, Dartmouth intramural winners, 28 to 18, and an all House boxing team and an informal group of squad wrestlers lost to corresponding Green teams 4 1/2 to 2 1/2 and 16 to 5 respectively. A Davenport tidal wave submerged the Kirkland swimmers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT SOLE CONQUEROR IN HOUSE COMPETITION | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Discovered by Dr. Otto Struve, Rus-sian-born director of Yerkes, and two associates, the big star is an obscure companion of Epsilon Aurigae, a well-known star not far from Capella. Even more diffuse than Antares, it is believed to have a temperature of only 1,000° C., lowest of any star known. Around the main body of the star is a shell of gas electrified by light from Epsilon Aurigae, in the same way that the electrified shell or "radio mirror" around earth is maintained by radiation from the sun. This phenomenon has never before been observed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biggest Star | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...himself is a Delta Sigma Phi and Lambda Phi Epsilon and one saxophone player who finished school easily and received a degree. Of the original four Hal Kempians, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams are Tar Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhythm is His Business | 10/27/1937 | See Source »

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