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...with two radically different types of play. Beekman has become almost a legond an the hardest hitting titlist in the history of the game, while Larry's claim to fame lies in amazing accuracy and endurance. Dixon and Rawlins are flawless stylists; the former was one of the earliest of Crimson squash luminaries produced by Harry Cowics...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Waht's His Number? | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Second, after the outbreak of hostilities Germany addressed France and England with peace proposals while the Soviet Union openly supported Germany's peace proposals because it believed and continues to believe that the earliest termination of the war would fundamentally alleviate the position of all countries and nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin for Peace? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...rubbing table, he heard the "kids" come in. They would come early, because they were nervous and it was their first Yale game. He had come earliest, around noon, because it was his last. He wanted to feel the atmosphere as long as he could today...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Vagabond | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...earliest printed document is a copy of the Bull of Pope Plus V, excommunicating Queen Elizabeth, entitled "Regnans in excelsis," and published in 1570. This Bull provided "the bloody question" that doomed many Catholic martyrs in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Receives Valuable Gift From Thomas W. Lamont '92 | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

Belair had been famed as a breeding farm for more than 150 years?since the day in 1747 when its first owner, Governor Samuel Ogle of Maryland, brought with him from England a stallion named Spark and a broodmare named Queen Mab, two of the earliest thoroughbreds ever imported to the U. S.? But in the 29 years that zealous William Woodward has been master of Belair, its name has become far more famed than it ever was under generations of Ogles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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