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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Displaying the same tenacity of purpose that has characterized CRIMSON baseball teams for many years, the classic diamond rivalry of CRIMSON and Lampoon was revived again yesterday, with the newsmen 23 to 2 ahead when the shadows were growing long on Soldiers Field. A large group of spectators, attracted by the thought that the spectacle was a now brand of rugby, attended in a body, and filled benches on both sides of the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newspapermen Pile Up Customary 23-2 Lead Over Funning Bagsters as Stellar Game Is Called on Account of Darkness | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

...leave at night. Probably he wouldn't have left if Brit hadn't told him he should go to night school. One day when Brit was not in the office and someone called William to do a chore, he uttered a remark that became an office classic. He was sitting in his cubby-hole among the piled up out-of-town newspapers. Instead of coming out at once when called, he answered: 'I am busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O. C. D. Housed | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...farm management department. She well knows the importance of food in China. Once she saw her mother stave off a massacre with a batch of cookies. Mrs. Buck spent ten years reading the whole body of Chinese novels before she herself wrote. She is now translating the Chinese classic Shuihu, written in the 13th Century by Shih Nai-han. Seventy chapters long, this book will not appear before 1934. Sons, a sequel to The Good Earth, is being serialized in Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Buck's editors describe her as "overwhelmed by the tremendous furor her works have caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Eyes, New Slant | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Capy, winner of the 1930 Prix Severine, transplants the stolid peasants of George Sand's pastoral novels to the War-years of 1914-18 and presents them in crisp, classic profile. Madeline of the white skin, Sebastien of the shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasants in War | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

With Mayer R. M. Russell '14 of Cambridge tossing out the first ball to Gaspar G. Bacon '08, president of the Massachusetts Senate, a baseball contest which is fondly expected to become an annual classic between the "Plympton Playboys" and the Cambridge Police, will be played at 6.15 o'clock this afternoon on Russell Field. Major Charles R. Apted '06 of the Harvard Yard Police has been announced as the umpire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plympton Playboys and Brattle Square Police Clash Today To Restore Good Feeling--Russell, Bacon, Apted Collaborate | 5/6/1932 | See Source »

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