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...relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner has collapsed; a many-muscled Princeton gymnast about to rise straight in the air toward a pair of rings; a crew race on Carnegie Lake in which Harvard's No. 4 is catching a crab; a Princeton swimmer with the enormous feet of his kind; a hockey game suggestive of a ballet; a baseball game in which a Princeton player has obviously just hit a home-run against Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Athletes & Eggs | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Blue Points on the half shell, bisque of oyster crab, consomme a la Russe, bouchees of terrapin Maryland style, celery, olives, chutney, and boiled pompano, maitre d'hotel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supplying and Satisfying the Inner Undergraduate Man Included Diets From Spaghetti and Garlic to Sweetbreads | 1/10/1935 | See Source »

...Laddie' Brewer who liked to go to bed At eight o'clock and as mess-officer Was hailed until a diet of canned crab Too oft repeated change of sentiment Provoked, and so another was elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arma Virumque | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Nichols crew defeated the first Freshman 150-pound crew by three lengths in the race Saturday afternoon over the regulation Henley course. The Black and White crew was a half length ahead after the first half-mile when the 150 crow's No. 7 man caught a minor crab and although he recovered from it the strain later caused the rigger to break, making the car utterly useless. The time for the winning boat was seven minutes and seventeen seconds for the mile and five-sixteenths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Browne and Nichols Sink Freshman 150-Pound Crew | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...giant crabs, salmon, herring and cod that swarm along the broken Russian coast of the Okhotsk, Japan and Bering Seas, were last week the subject of grave diplomatic conversations in Tokyo and Moscow. Russian property, they became international following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) when the Japanese demanded and got equal rights with Russians to fish certain waters. After the Russian Revolution, Japanese fishermen stampeded into all the best fishing grounds, exported their crab catch largely to the U. S., their salmon catch to Britain. Not until 1928, when an eight-year Fishing Convention was signed, did the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: Crabs v. Railway | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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