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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plays host to the Yale invaders on the Divinity Courts this afternoon. The local netmen have had an undefeated season, marked by a victory over Exeter, 7-2. The Yale first year men have lost twice, to Roxbury School of Connecticut and to Princeton 1932 by an 8-1 count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RACQUETMEN TO FACE YALE AT NEW HAVEN | 5/25/1929 | See Source »

...sluggers, the Harvard leader put himself in a position to score the winning run by stealing second. The first pitch went wild and Prior ticked the second into the stands. As Hensil wound up for the third throw McGrath streaked towards home in a desperate attempt to knot the count, sliding over the plate as the ball thumped into the catcher's mit. When the dust cleared Umpire Kelleher's hand could be seen signalling the narrow failure of the potential tally; the same gesture sounded the end of the Crimson's rally and the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RALLY IN NINTH FALLS SHORT | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

Since ignored Russia and impotent Germany could not influence the decisions of the statesmen in Geneva, a practical effect of the Hoover decision was to enable France and Italy to carry their point that "trained reserves" and "military supplies" shall not be reduced. The German delegate, Count von Bernstorff, expressed his chagrin as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Battling for Reduction | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Graf Zeppelin. With Germany's minister to Austria (Count Hugo Lerchenfeld) and the Austrian Minister of Commerce (Dr. Hans Schürff) aboard, the Graf Zeppelin rose from its field at Friedrichshafen one morning at dawn and before 10 a. m. was flying over Vienna. School children in the streets sent up balloons with flags and flowers. Dr. Hugo Eckener sent down by radio a speech saying: "We crossed the frontier a few hours ago, but we do not feel ourselves in an alien land. We have the same tongue, the same Kultur, the same hopes. We will again come." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...hand was placed on a table and a spectator was asked to choose a number and slowly count to it. When the number was reached the wax hand emphatically stopped the counting by a sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghostbusting | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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