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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boilermakers - despite their famed runnings backs, Lou Brock and Jack Brown (rated second to Michigan's Harmon and Kromer)- have been defeated by Santa Clara and tied by Minnesota. They still have a chance for the Big Ten championship should Michigan or Ohio State fumble- provided they beat Iowa, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Indiana in the next four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight, after the Wildcats lost their first two games (to Oklahoma and Ohio State), an editorial in the student newssheet, Daily Northwestern, charged that the linemen were refusing to block for their ballyhooed star, Sophomore Bill De Correvont. Angered, the Wildcats promptly beat Wisconsin 13-to-7, and last week swamped Illinois 13-to-0, even though De Correvont failed to get going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Britain's teachers tried desperate devices to keep the évacués out of mischief. They staged boxing and wrestling matches, started all sorts of games. Nevertheless, bored, homesick city toughies formed gangs, roved the countryside, beat up village children, threw stones at policemen, let pigs out of their pens, chased cows, skirmished with enraged farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to London | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says: "Run along to bed, little father." When the Count makes love to her while a traffic cop is tooting his whistle, grimly scientific Ninotchka asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...strongly convinced that the intellectual demoralization of post war America takes its origin to a considerable extent in the actions of those intellectual leaders who beat the war drums of that earlier period

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zimmerman Flays Pro-British Stand of McLaughlin, Praises Pacifists Bravery | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

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