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This Symphony in G major, opus 41, is divided into three movements: (1) Allegro grazioso ma con brio (2) Molto moderato ma non troppo lente (3) Allegro energico...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

...Minnesota, twice defeated in non-con-ference play (by Nebraska and Notre Dame), again clinched the Big Ten championship, by defeating Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thunder Team | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Harvard-Yale game, the day when the outcome of months of con-centrated, preparation will be decided in 60 minutes of controlled warfare. Everyone from a steelstands ticket holder to the 22 starting players are at a high nervous tension, a tension which will map with the closing whistle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Managerial Candidates Will Learn Their Fates Today After Game | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...central principle in all true con [confidence] rackets is to show a sucker how he can make some money by dishonest methods and then beat him in his attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: helping the victim ("prospect") to find a pocketbook, whose grateful owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Professional Viewpoint | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...think that two weeks is more than long enough for a book to be charged out. We often weep at the distress of the student who finds Widener has a book, and indeed knows where it is, but can't get it for a month. A month is an con in an academic year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

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