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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year W. D. Edmunds Jr. '26 of Harvard won one of the two second prizes of the contest, Mary Lispenard Cooper of Vassar taking the other. Archer Winston of Princeton won the first prize, for which students in 84 American universities participated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLINT OF GOLD LURES UNIVERSITY WRITERS | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

Speaking of landing marines, why should not Commandant of Marines Major General John Archer Lejeune march in the Coolidge-Kellogg thin red squad of heroes? "Lejeune, at least, would fight," said grudging Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Thin Red Squad | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...lined up women, tore the babies from their breasts, tossed them in air, impaled them on spear points. Some say that a British propagandist, not Osman Digna, invented this game, but Colonel Horatio Kitchener (young then) took it seriously. He went after Fuzzy Wuzzy at Handub but a black archer pinked the Colonel in the neck, and the man with the ugly face escaped. For a while he hid in the hills, played a deadly kind of squat tag with all the British troops that came where he was. At last a sly captain named Burges chased him into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Fuzzy Wuzzy | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Putnam. Publisher George Palmer Putnam of Manhattan, with his small son David Binney Putnam; Art Young, archer; Carl Dunrud, cowboy; Dan Streeter, author; Capt. Bob Bartlett, Explorer Peary's onetime skipper; Knud Rasmussen, explorer; and naturalists from the American Museum of Natural History, have been cruising Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, off Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...What profession includes the father of Mrs. Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Apr. 26, 1926 | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

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