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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the best material in years combines to make the second and third crews perhaps the most outstanding subvarsity eighth in quite a while. And, although Tom Bolles withholds any definite comment on the prospects of the Varsity boat, he has said definitely that this year's Jayvee boats are the best in two years...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Second and Third Varsity Crews Shape Up as Best in Last Two Years---Bolles | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...slang goes, no one knows how much of it Louis really did start and how much of it was river boat and Harlemese. But the fact remains that a great many of his early records contained the slang that musicians use today. You won't hear musicians talking about "licorice sticks" (a jitterbug term for clarinet) whereas you will hear them talking about "gage" and "tea" (two terms for marijuana...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

With a week of hard practice during the Easter holidays behind them, the Varsity crew is beginning to shape up well. A first boat that was put together before vacation seems to be fairly definite, and no changes are expected before the first race...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: VARSITY BOATING APPEARS DECIDED | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

There are only two seniors in the first boat, Rowe and Talbot, which means one thing in particular--that Harvard has a chance in the Olympic trials next year. However, as far as this one fact is concerned, the California crew and the Yale crew are both starting out the season with no seniors aboard...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: VARSITY BOATING APPEARS DECIDED | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

With some angry talk, Adolf Hitler last week launched a boat at Wilhelmshaven. On the previous day, another Hitler got off another boat in Manhattan, and also delivered some angry talk-against his Uncle Adolf. William Patrick Hitler, 28, arriving in the U. S. for an anti-Hitler lecture tour, explained that he hates his uncle because of 1) his policies, 2) his attitude toward his own family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler v. Hitler | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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