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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infield which is expected to start most of the games is composed largely of veterans. Prior, understudy of J. E. Tobin '27 and Lord during the last two seasons will undoubtedly cover the initial sack whenever the nine takes to the field. Chase will be at second base while Sullivan, a regular on last year's team, will be called on to fill the part of shortstop, according to present indications. The hot corner position will most probably be held down by Donaghy, another veteran, who is brilliant, though often erratic in his fielding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUAD OF 20 TO GO ON BASEBALL TRIP | 4/6/1928 | See Source »

Such behavior may now seem frivolous and insane to all civilized persons; it would have seemed totally incredible to any Greek, at the time when the unknown sculptor made his statue. To the wise Greeks, who lacked the prurient estheticism of modern magazine cover art, the male face or figure was, in its more austere and tempered contours, perhaps a trifle more beautiful than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Apollo at Greenville | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...response of members of the class of 1928 has been rather feeble to the questionnaires sent out on March 7. These reports and the cards covering students' permanent addresses are absolutely essential in order to get out the class report next spring and the bound volumes of class lives now. The life blanks cover many subjects of interest to students. Among these are drinking, marriage among undergraduates, the tutorial system, and the Reading Period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS URGED TO SUBMIT LIFE BLANKS IMMEDIATELY | 3/29/1928 | See Source »

...with." Senator Borah made another plea for his Republican retribution fund:* "I believe the [Sinclair] conspiracy was formed in the city of Chicago at the convention in 1920 by a few men unbeknown to the party itself, unbeknown to the rank and file, but by men who under cover of party protection were consummating a crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fashions In Silence | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...north and east at his back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region, and maintain intact their line of communications with Managua and Leon, must swing over an arc half again as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Jungle Journalism | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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