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...making the trip are as follows: Paul Keller '33, 115-pound class; J. B. Gilbert '33, 125-pound class; P. O. Johnson '33, 135-pound class; J. H. Crandon '33, 145-pound class; O. E. Goddard '33, 155-pound class; M. A. Keyser '33, 165-pound class; Isaac Barter, Jr. '33, 175-pound class; W. S. Burrage '33, unlimited class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATMEN TRAVEL TO PENN FOR CONTEST TOMORROW | 2/28/1930 | See Source »

...coal mine. But in general the picture fails to produce anything real or substantial. The theme, that it is better to be poor, honest and hard-working rather than rich, idle and thrill-seeking, adds little new or even convincing information. The main story, involving the barter of a husband between two rich women, has the advantage of oddity, but it is only amusingly and farcically portrayed...

Author: By Julius Vexler, | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/18/1930 | See Source »

...sail from Quebec, to reach London as near as possible to the opening date of Parliament (Oct. 29), the tall, tousle-haired Scot could look back on such a triumph as no avowed champion of Labor ever enjoyed in the Americas before. Toronto. Red Indians liked to meet and barter on the site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here Laborite MacDonald met the American Federation of Labor (see p. 14), raised a cheer by calling himself "still the old workman that I was born." In the afternoon he signed the Golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No War: No Blockade | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...points were: 1) The farm bill, with its board and its money, will put the Government farther into business than ever before "if it means what it says"; 2) It implies "price-fixing . . . barter and sale, buying and borrowing" by the U. S.; 3) To accept the bill's generalities and gag at its only concrete feature-the Debenture Plan-was "nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Ill Winds | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...could curse for four minutes. Her father shipped her on, with a large supply of patent milk powders which nourished the young sea-woman not at all. No native wet nurse could be persuaded to stay aboard, and Joan was slowly starving when "Stitches," the sailmaker, managed to barter a handful of dried apricots and an old alarm clock for a Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skipper's Daughter | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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