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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowning blow to any chances of a second place for Harvard came when Bob Woodward took a nasty spill in the 1500-meter run and was put completely out of the running. This misfortune was doubly bad when a look at the time of 4 minutes and five seconds is taken. By an intricate and highly developed system of mathematics it can be figured out that this time would make the time for a mile at four minutes and 26 seconds, which Woodward could best when he is at his best by walking the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Runners Get Third as Jaspers Triumph in I.C.4A | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Anniversary of Charles William Eliot's birthday will be celebrated by Eliot House on Thursday. March 19. The celebration will take the form of a "Gaudy", Balliot College's form, for a "blow-out", Eliot's "Gaudy" will be a House dinner, soup served at 7 o'clock sharp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 3/6/1936 | See Source »

...Tower for many years--but I to trim them and put them on but find a helmet is wanting; so I to use a morion and with certain papers paste together a beaver for it, but alas, quite undid all the morning's labor at the first test blow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...Cleveland last week was Clayton Clawson, holdup man famed as "the toughest prisoner ever to be held in Cuyahoga County Jail." Tough Clayton Clawson was conducting his own defense before Judge Samuel Silbert. Suddenly Clayton Clawson whipped out a small bottle of colorless liquid, shouted: "I'm gonna blow everybody to kingdom come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Clawson | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Christy & Co., who displayed as a novelty an antique London Bobby's hat, were disconcerted when their salable goods were disregarded by the Sovereign Salesman. Picking up the antique and striking the counter smartly with it, His Majesty commented: "That would stand a good hefty blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Salesman Sovereign | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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