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Jack Whalen and Sanford Glitch will be the Engineers' big potentialities if it is true that Samuels is out. Ernest Avis, George Mavakas and Tom "Red" Dolan will start as guards and center.

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Varsity Hoopsters Rely on Teamwork Tonight As Season Opens Against Novice M.I.T. Squad | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

The word auspice, meaning sign or omen, is telescoped from the Latin words avis, bird, and specere, to see. In ancient Rome the appearance and behavior of birds-whether they were eagles, vultures, owls, crows, or ravens, which direction they flew, how they ate grains of corn-determined whether public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Heavenly Omen | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

A dental hygienist from Michigan read a paper on the history of the toothbrush. Lithe Dr. Julius Hughes of Atlanta scored 76 and 73 in the golf tournament to walk away with the low gross in Class A. There was a plantation dance in the Municipal Auditorium. A resolution was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tooth Talk | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

On a cool August night Manhattan's 1935-36 theatrical season last week officially opened with an inexpensive, inept, vulgar and apologetic musical review called Smile at Me (sketches by Edward J. Lambert, music by Gerald Dolin and Lambert: produced by Harold K. Berg). Strewn through an evening of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Season's First | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

But, of course, even that will not keep their circulation going indefinitely. They may have to turn their hunting also after that rara avis, the collegian who is neither Communist nor Fascist, and their hunt so directed may possibly meet with a greater aboundance of foxes, although it is difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoop | 6/12/1935 | See Source »

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