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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However "Copey," as he was affectionately known to a generation of students, will read at President Conant's Christmas Eve Party, and students of the Class of '42, keenly disappointed at the break in this tradition, are in hopes that he will come later in the year to the Union to deliver a reading from the Bible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Copey" Breaks Tradition by Not Reading to Freshmen | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Most likely spots for the Big Push are the Sagunto sector, where the Insurgent drive on Valencia was halted by the Loyalist counteroffensive on the Ebro four months ago, or the area around Lerida in the north, where an Insurgent break-through would place Franco within striking distance of Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: The Big Push? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...hungry small boy to crack one walnut, or even a dozen, is no problem. But cracking walnuts in hundreds of thousands is what the California Walnut Growers' Association does, and it wanted a cracker which did not break up the meats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nut News | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Many Californians will never forget the thrill they experienced when Jockey Adams rode six winners in a row (five of them long shots) at Bay Meadows one afternoon last spring-a feat that only seven U. S. jockeys have ever accomplished. Others who had seen him break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jockey Race | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...guts to do it, to send tariffs sky high, and to clamp on import quotas, we could still break Japan and save China," declared William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, in a discussion of "Economic Sanctions in American Diplomacy" at Leverett House Common Room, last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INVOKE SANCTIONS ON JAPAN, ELLIOTT URGES | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

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