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Last barrier to commercial aviation is that vast body of salt water which the ancient Greeks called Ocean. To conquer it has long been the goal of many nations. First step was taken by Germany in the South Atlantic with her Graf Zeppelin and mail planes refueled by a ship anchored in midocean. Next summer Germany will launch a North Atlantic shuttle for mail & passengers with tne Graf's big sister, Hindenburg (LZ-129), and Pan American Airways will send its giant super-clipper ships experimentally across the Pacific. But by last week it became evident that the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Composite Airplane | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Although defeated in the B league, 4-1, the Varsity squash team came back to conquer Lincoln's Inn, 3-2, in a C league match played on the Linden Street courts yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SQUASH TEAM C BEATS LINCOLN'S INN | 12/20/1934 | See Source »

...Freshman Class D team also chose yesterday to conquer a Tufts D team by a 3-2 count. The summary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SQUASH TEAM OVERCOMES GRADUATES | 12/14/1934 | See Source »

Annually invited to thus perform on the Wellesley stage, the Harvard actors this year have found themselves in part disguised and encased in the armor of "R.U.R.'s" mechanical men, as the drama deals with the creation of a race of robots who finally conquer their human makers and destroy the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACTORS LEND TALENTS FOR WELLESLEY DRAMA | 12/8/1934 | See Source »

...Harvard soccer team will readily conquer M.I.T., on the Business School Field this afternoon, if the latter's poor record, which includes defeats by Army, 5-1, and Yale, 3-0, is indicative of inferior strength. After four successive hard struggles, with Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton, and West Point, Coach Carr's Crimson booters hope to gain a breather before their meeting with Yale next Friday, and also to form some gauge of the Eli power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SOCCER TEAM MEETING M.I.T. BOOTERS | 11/17/1934 | See Source »

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