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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established price for a review is $2.50 an hour, but each student is asked to pay only what he can afford. It is difficult to say how much time is required to straighten out problems, but Salmen stated that a $10 charge is unusual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Supervisors-- | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...Last Flower" has been causing a mild furor of late, with its poetic parable of the future of our civilization. Unequivocally recommended. . . "U.S. Camera Annual: 1940" is edited by Steichen which means that it should be the best available, and is . . . Hyman Levy's "Modern Science" is a difficult but rewarding study of the physical sciences. . . Agnes Newton Keith's "Land Below the Wind" is a chronicle of four years in North Bornce. . . . Phil Stong's "Horses and American Social life and manners. Altogether a good thing. . . Carl Carmer's "The Hudson" is a fine compound of history and legend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Only well-known European language which even remotely resembles the difficult Magyar tongue is Finnish. Mainly for this reason, sentimental Hungarians consider the Finns "our northern cousins." Last week Hungarians were dismayed to hear of the Soviet invasion of Finland. At the same time fear of the Russians came nearer home with disturbing occurrences on their own Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Southern Relatives | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Never faltering before the New York blast, the Crimson rallied to net the winning shots in the last four minutes of play. Dave Eaton led off at 16:40 by taking a pass from Prenie Willetts and sinking the rubber from a difficult angle...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Hockey Sextet Downs St. Nicholas Veterans 5 to 3 In Breathtaking Opener | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Another veteran of many meets who is back again is Jack Walron, hardy breaststroker. Jack has worked his way onto the Varsity the difficult way, having shown a remarkable improvement in three years of competition. He now leads the butterfly experts on the squad and it is to be expected that his nervy finishes of last year will be seen once more during the next few months. Along with his extended training and experience, they should carry him to clockings in the vicinity of 2:35 in the 200-yard event. Ed Hewitt is shooting for the No. 2 post...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

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