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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long ago, when a hunchbacked Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), grandfather of Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, introduced German culture to Berlin's ghettos the Enlightened Jews objected. For "Before Christ" they insisted on substituting "Before the Common Era," for "Anno Domini" the "Common Era." At the spectacle of the Aryans following Jewish example nearly 200 years later, Jewish rabbis chuckled in their beards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Jewish Joke | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to hibernate, been washed down & down by seeping water to the extraordinary depth at which they were found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Prehistoric Frogs | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...first home intercollegiate match, the Crimson's best polo team in years faces the Elis at the Common-wealth Armory tonight at 10:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Favored Polo Trio to Face Elis in Second Series Tilt | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

...much valuable time, and care now will pay large dividends later on. Above all, the worst thing they can do is to drift into any field at all, expecting to have an education shoved down their throats, as it were. Freshmen owe it to themselves to use their common sense during the next few weeks and come to an intelligent decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FISH | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

There is no necessity to cheapen the cause by serialized articles on "Was Kindergarten Worth While?" but to the dignity of a rational report should be added some common denominator which will draw the sympathy and understanding of the taxpayers who ultimately must endorse any major scholarship program. The public can follow a logical argument, but it is sometimes shaky on the long words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN SHOULD KNOW BETTER | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

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