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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complaining about the rather odd way in which the article is written, but I do think you might take the trouble to see that the photographs you publish are correct ones. Lady Emily Hart Dyke was very beloved in many parts of this country, and to see her photograph printed with the words "Mismating did not daunt her," and my own name underneath it, will give pain to many people...
Finding an able coxswain is a major problem for most college crew coaches. Coxswains must be strong enough to steer the shell straight, shrewd enough to detect faults in the crew's performance, aggressive enough to correct them, good-natured enough not to mind an occasional ducking for their pains. Until crew-conscious alumni start subsidizing midgets, cox-swains who fill these requirements but still weigh less than 120 Ib. will be scarcer than good halfbacks. Last week in England, crew coaches at Oxford, which hopes on March 24 to win the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first...
...lavishly hospitable, through its satrap, General Yang Hu-cheng, to arriving Communist leaders of varying importance and to U. S. Counselor of Embassy Willys Ruggles Peck who flew up from Nanking and dined festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them to leave by motor truck through Banditland or perhaps by airplane. Meanwhile huge U. S.-built Nanking Government planes, each capable...
Rapid and correct presentation of slides for lectures in all Fine Arts courses is obviously a vital necessity. When this feature of the classes is not handled properly the results may well be more than merely annoying. In Fine Arts le many complaints have been made because of the inefficiency of the technical assistants. Occasionally slides appear on the screen upside down or out of order, and time is wasted while the correction is made...
...that he always ate alone, when he gave a dinner party would have a half lemon put on his plate, out of courtesy. As for the condition of Indian women, Mr. Yeats-Brown flatly disagrees with Katherine Mayo (Mother India) that they are an enslaved sex: "Her facts are correct as regards the infinitesimal percentage of women to whom they apply, but her deductions from these special cases are a travesty of the truth...