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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these words Governor George D. Aiken last week stirred his legislature to come to the defense of Union Village. The Governor had a letter from Secretary of War Woodring directing that work begin on a Federal flood control dam on the Ompompanoosuc River before a contract had been made compensating Union Village and other towns for the loss of taxes on land condemned by the U. S. for the dam site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERMONT: A Dam Site | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...children returned last week to U. S. public schools to begin a new year, they found democracy attempting to bring its self-defense propaganda as well as maps up to date. U. S. teachers, fresh from year-end conventions whose theme was democracy's defense, read in the U. S. Office of Education's publication, School Life, a reminder that State laws require them to teach their pupils devotion to the ideals and principles of democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Times & Texts | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

According to tentative arrangements drawn up by Coach Clark Hodder of the Varsity squad and Adolph Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, the tourney will begin the weekend before the end of Mid-Years and continue for seven Monday evenings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TOURENY FOR HOUSES ARRANGED BY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

When Dr. Riddle talks most earnestly about glands, he is apt for emphasis to indicate their location on his own person, and his eyes begin to sparkle. He smokes a great many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches, coffee and condensed cream, perhaps with the bloody carcass of a rat in the sink at his elbow and surrounded by jars of pickled pigeon specimens. He used to play golf but has given it up, used to be a bachelor, but gave that up also almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pituitary Master | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...last year was 64 to 11. The Crimson performances were definitely in the "early-season" category, a fact which could be overlooked almost any year but this. In view of the strong Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown teams this season Captain Rusty Greenhood and his team will have to begin scaling down the times a little ahead of schedule...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: GREENWOOD LOSES TO ULEN MERMEN 51 TO 24 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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