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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course it is almost impossible to climb with a lacquer base on the skis, so for practice slope work, some one of the climbing slope waxes can be used to help out. But in any climb of extended length it is much better to use the very efficient plushskin or moleskin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Professional Advises Beginner Of Average Ability to Use Lacquer, Wax | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

...guilty under the Inquisition) for refusing to swear undivided allegiance ; how Edward I expelled the Jews from England in 1290, taking their houses, their money, some times (accidentally) their lives. For tile rest, Professor Coulton himself describes the book as a scaffolding by which young students may climb to chisel details on the monument of knowledge. The analogy is poor. No scaffolding was ever built so meticulously from such solid materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coulton's Cabbage | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...this afternoon at two o'clock, Vag will climb to Emerson 211 to hear Mr. F. W. C. Hersey give his famed illustrated lecture on "The Wessex of Thomas Hardy's Novels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...persuaded the league-leading Boston Bruins to sell Goaltender Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson for $15,000 (highest price ever paid for a goalie). No less shocked than hockey fans was Tiny Thompson (so named because he is so big), who had been with the Bruins ten years, had helped them climb to top ranking in their division of the league five times, had won the Georges Vezina Trophy (for No. 1 goalie) four times, was still popular with the Boston fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: $ 15,000 for a Goalie | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard senior, one of those rare personages who occasionally turn up to confound the "how many steps are there on your front porch see you don't know although you climb them every day" dictum of modern psychologists, recently sat in his room, desperately put to pass the time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/22/1938 | See Source »

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