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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denying the fact that Neville Chamlain "has brought peace with honor for our time," the Varsity speakers defeated a Brown team last Saturday in a radio debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inter-House Debating Trials to Begin Tonight in Leverett, Lowell, Winthrop | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...very curious to know if Mr. Paul C. Smyth's "Situation Wanted" ad in your Aug. 8 issue brought results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...people of Andalusia, in Southern Spain, who voted Leftist when Spain had elections, have usually been cool toward the Italian "volunteers" brought in by tens of thousands to help Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain's civil war. Last week, as some 12,000 Italian infantrymen prepared to return to Italy in a "token" withdrawal of Italian troops, controlled Rightist newspapers and spokesmen whooped up enthusiasm to show Rightist Spain's official gratitude to Fascist Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sweet Partings | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Though Patriot-Pianist Paderewski has lived to see his dreams of Polish independence realized and himself a legend in the history of music, it is naturally toward his heyday, the Victorian era, that his thoughts most fondly turn. "The passing of that great period, the nineties," he muses, "brought to a close a tremendous era, a flowering of all that was most beautiful and elegant in life. We shall not see its like again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pianist Patriot | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Lucky") who started from Norway to Greenland in 1000 A.D., but-according to Historian William Hovgaard-"was driven far to the southwest, and finally made land on the coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where he collected a great cargo of grapes and timber which he took to Greenland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Norse | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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