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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knockout." Thus did Challenger Sixto Escobar, swart, pint-sized Puerto Rican, haltingly predict to newshawks last week the outcome of his bout with Champion Lou Salica for the world's bantamweight crown. When the savage 15-round struggle was over, Escobar was proved two-thirds correct. By a steady body attack, he won the decision, reversed the result of their first meeting three months...
...signal to undergraduates to extend their vacations. For Juniors a safeguard against this flaw, as it exists in other systems, is placed in the requirement that they produce departmental papers at the end of the period. As for Seniors we feel that the Council is correct in assuming "with confidence that the time granted . . . . would be wisely spent, first in application to the thesis, and later in condensing and summarizing the departmental work of two years' duration in preparation for the final comprehensive examinations...
...which all such dream-epics demand from the camera. This is due partly to the firmly sympathetic touch of Director Henry Hathaway, previously noted for such outdoor works as Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and partly to the presence of Gary Cooper and Ann Harding whose eminently unmystical impersonations correct the narrative's tendency to become shrouded in poetic fantasy...
...have no desire to undermine your constitution by agreeing with your point but for several days we have thought you absolutely correct...
...thank you for the very excellent and unprejudiced manner in which you presented the Chinese aviation picture in TIME, Oct. 14. I personally appreciated very much your recognition of the efforts of the American Aviation Mission in China. When you mentioned the group, as a "devoted group," you were correct, as these young men did a wonderful job under extremely adverse circumstances. Living as we did in the interior of China, the mails from home were looked forward to with the greatest impatience. I think that every member of the group was a subscriber to TIME because of the wide...