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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Piles Up 63 1-2 Points To Crush Cornell and Big Green | 2/25/1930 | See Source »

...most exciting races on the program will be the relay between the three teams, with the Crimson quartet favored to win with Dartmouth a close second. This event will doubtless be another record breaker, since the Crimson team of Hennessey, Munroe, Record and Cummings defeated the Yale quartet last Saturday at the B. A. A. games in faster time than the Triangular Meet record, which was established last winter by a team made up of three of the above-named men. Tupper was the sole man lost by graduation, and his place has been taken by Record, whose work against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Favored to Win in H-D-C Meet | 2/21/1930 | See Source »

...part which the aeroplane plays in the expedition seems to me to be mainly that of a trail-breaker. General survey, of course, may be accomplished by plane very successfully, but the real exploration will have to be done on the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRD EXPEDITION WILL UNCOVER VALUABLE DATA | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

...unions said: "I don't know why our brotherhood should not be in this, the largest labor organization in the world."* Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At Toronto | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets of his bank. But if he, in the course of his purchases, lets any individual player accumulate more notes than he has assets, the bank is broken and the bank-breaker becomes Banker. Mean while players can buy and sell among themselves, each trying to get as long suits as possible, for the more units of each suit a player holds the more the banker has to pay for each unit. (For one Brickyard a player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money Game | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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