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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guardian geese around the citadel of classical music there arose last week an anguished honking. An 81-year-old stockbroker named Alfred Lewis Dennis, member of Newark's venerable Bach Choral Society, wrote a long letter, hissing with protest, to FCC Chairman Frank R. McNinch. Its painful burden: the swinging of classical music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flat Foot Johann | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Because of this, the burden of the Winthrop running attack will fall on Joe Peden, who has improved greatly at the tallback post during the last three games. Al Blanchard, a sprinter, will replace Weller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Kirkland in Playoff Today | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Curley was shown a copy of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts guaranteeing the "powers, authorities, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities, and franchises" of Harvard College, and asked whether the state should not assume the burden of tax exemption which now resides with the municipalities...

Author: By Blair Clark, | Title: Curley Says Harvard Should Give Him Its Liberal Votes | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

Blind horses are a burden on their owners : like some blind people, they develop neuroses, become hesitant and suspicious, refuse to move about. They are usually "destroyed." Last week the Horse Show committee of Nebraska's famed Ak-Sar-Ben celebration brought to Omaha for a personal appearance a blind horse named Elmer Gantry, who was remarkable not simply because he was still alive but also because he had been taught to jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Elmer Gantry | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...that they should have been. The law students do not seem to realize that for years the varsity squash team has been pursuing its way around courts that have varied more than two feet in dimension, and their need for the standard courts at Hemenway outweighs the burden on law students of an occasional five minute walk. Exercise for law students is of the utmost importance, but if six courts were expressly reserved for them at Linden Street, in addition to the six remaining courts at the Hemenway Gym, the varsity invasion would deprive them of nothing, not even their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER SQUASH | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

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