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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never has a squad more deserved to win. They have met three teams, all of which were faster and bigger and more replete with replacements. Yet in all three encounters Harvard has out-hit, out-driven, and just plain out-spirited the opponents. In all of these games no one has left the field doubting for a moment which team was the better coached. Coach Harlow is the finest type of Harvard man, and Harvard has adopted him for her own. Those on his team look up to "Dick" so much that when they lose, they feel that they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT IN TRIUMPH, BUT FLASHING | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...convinced ambassador made ready to pay for this service, his servants warned that a huge, full-grown cobra was still in hiding. The charmer resumed his playing and swaying. Soon a much bigger snake than any of the captured nine twisted into the open, slithered across the ground and crawled into the bag with the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Ambassador's Snakes | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...biggest and best team the Stadium has seen," grunted Skip Stahley. "A bigger line than any we had or played against in my four years at Pittsburgh," grumped Johnny Wood. Even the new baseball coach now working for Harlow, Floyd Stahl, growled his bit, "Cornell looks like Minnesota...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Scouts Cry "Pittsburg", "Minnesota" About Cornell as Harlow Drives Hard | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

...Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Birth of An Englishman | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...thought of Ec. 61? Last year they did, but that was in the Old familiar room. When he had sat on his windowseat there, he knew that if he looked out he could just glimpse a corner of the clock in Memorial Hall tower. But that New windowseat, a bigger, softer, less intimate one--well, the Vagabond wasn't exactly sure of the view from it. Perhaps an unfamiliar smattering of Lowell tower, a few hurricane-slain tress, a foot or so of Drive and Charles; and the clock now brazenly and imperatively in full view, no doubt. The rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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