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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every other team sport any Harvard athlete who competes against Yale and whose performance may alter the outcome receives a letter or numerals. Cross country should certainly be brought up to date. An elastic policy should be followed in making awards. In addition to the five point winners any of the Harvard second quintet to beat a member of the first Yale five deserves a letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC INCONGRUITY | 12/14/1937 | See Source »

...hole", the game has speeded up greatly and is subsequently harder on the players. For this reason the lack of reserve strength may cause the Crimson difficulty in future League contests. Most noticeable weakness of the Varsity substitutes has been on the defense. In games to date the opposition scored comparatively at will when the first string cagers were withdrawn from action...

Author: By B. SHEFFIELD West, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/14/1937 | See Source »

...points to 27.5% of capacity. Lumber, power and cement output dwindled. Freight cars were at the year's emptiest. Furniture sales were 30% less than last year. But indices, being statistical compilations of past events, are always a bit behind the times. More intangible but more up-to-date indications last week seemed to point in the other direction. The New York stockmarket completed ten days of solid gain with Dow-Jones industrial averages reaching 128. Moody's commodity price index was up from 144.6 on November 24 to 149.2 last week with industry buying heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Market Week | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...That brings them in $30,000 a year. They publish two magazines, Bridge World and Games Digest. They run a bridge club in Manhattan. Bridge teachers, mostly widows making a haphazard living, find a Culbertson "diploma" almost indispensable. And yearly courses are required to keep the diploma up to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Culbertsons, Inc. | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...four officers (the hardened Captain was 31 years old) lived in a chamber "about the size of the guest bedroom in a beach bungalow," in which the smell of sulfuric acid from the storage batteries mingled with smells from the electric cookstove. Through the out-of-date, foggy periscope of the L-9, the Captain could just make out "a rather blurred image of the nearby seascape." Biggest moments in the life of theLL-9 came when the Second, or chief executive, relayed the Captain's order to dive: "Take her down." When she headed for the bottom there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comedy of Errors | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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