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"Let us also not forget," vainly admonished R. H. Morris, M. P., "that lotteries were abolished prior to Queen Elizabeth's time because they had distracted young men from making themselves efficient in archery and had led them into idleness."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

On international exchange the German mark rose approximately to par* last week for the first time since last May. During the July crisis, when President Hans Luther of the Reichsbank flew like a distracted June bug from Berlin to London to Paris to Basle seeking funds (TIME, July 20), the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mark Hangs High | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

The Donaldsons buried their boy, denied outright that they had thwarted the marriage. Said they: "A brutal and premeditated murder cannot be exploited by the futile attempt of a badly advised and distracted father who is trying to save his son by hiding him behind the skirt of a daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On the Main Line | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

The adult background is provided by Dorothy Peterson and Matt Moore, who are convincing as Penrod's mother and father. Zazu Pitts displays her agitated hands and middle-Western voice as the distracted mother of Georgie Bassett.

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

Indeed college literary publications are progenitors of them all--magazines such as "The Harvard Advocate", the Yale and Princeton "Lits", The Williams "News" have bit by bit turned over many of their former functions to their younger compeers. No longer are they shot gun prescriptions for the undergraduate palate, mingling...

Author: By C. C. Abbott, | Title: FRESHMAN NUMBER OF ADVOCATE IS REVIEWED BY C. C. ABBOTT '28 | 10/3/1931 | See Source »

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