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When the big Green football machine lines up in the Stadium Saturday, who will be given the all-important task of directing the attack? Will it be the veteran Dooley or the comparatively untried Fallon who will bark the signals that set the Dartmouth attack in motion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUARTERBACK POSITION IS HANOVER STORM CENTER | 10/23/1924 | See Source »

Protocol. All during September, the drafsmen labored on the protocol and then presented to the Assembly an elaborate document of 21 articles- 21 teeth that are to make the League's bite mightier than his bark. Ex-Premier Aristide Briand of France, chief French delegate to the Assembly, asseverated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Teeth | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...found anywhere in the world. All kinds of paraphernalia, log-books, pictures, and scrimshaw, which was the artistic work of the sailors, in engraving and carving whale ivory, have found their way into the museum. The prize of the collection, however, is a model of a whaling bark, built on half-scale, which is large enough to allow people to walk about on her decks and go down into her cabin. The model is fully equipped with the things that would ordinarily have been taken on a voyage, from whaling charts to sails. It is particularly interesting now that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH MUSEUM HEAD TO LECTURE ON WHALING | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

During the Parliamentary recess, ex-Premier David Lloyd George . found time to scurry back to Wales and, inhaling there his native air he became frisky, allowed his political tail to wag him and demonstrated, as he has often done before, that his bark is worse than his bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Irreconcilable | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

...Indies. It is about six inches long and has a peculiar spiny covering on its gills which enables it to retain water in the interstices. Thus it can live a long time out of water, travel on dry land for a long distance and can catch on to the bark of trees and climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nature-Faking? | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

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