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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main drawbacks were mechanical, such as the question of whether the students would be compelled to eat in the House dining halls, the cost of the residence, and other such difficulties which can easily be ironed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Oh, I Don't Know ..." | 1/22/1930 | See Source »

...Earl Russell sat up with her. She howled, he soothed. She whined, he stroked; and she gratefully, feebly licked his hand. Midnight passed. She twitched, shuddered and looked at him with piteous brown eyes. He could not go to bed. When dawn came and then day, he could hardly eat his breakfast-with the old dog perhaps dying. "Hrrm, may I remind Your Lordship," ventured the Russells' sympathetic but firm butler, "that Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Woozy Earl | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...long (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.). Even the Red Cross has ceased to give aid. Now and then it should be remembered that roughly 12,000,000 Chinese stomachs are suffering the gnawing pains of slow starvation. Use less to repeat that thousands of parents are eating their children when they can catch them, thousands of young people gnawing their grandparents as they fall. A population greater than New York plus Chicago is slowly sinking below the level of dog-eat-dog to Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Distressing Notes | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Author. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a doctor who took to writing humorous pieces for Moscow journals to help defray the expenses of his unwieldy household. A bachelor, he had a larger family than many a paterfamilias, and they did their best to eat him out of house and home. When critics began to take his funny stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Chekhov's Philanderer | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize and drunk water, they flew out of the window none the worse for their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked to eat game with dirty, sooty feathers on it ; they preferred clean cooked meat." On Jan. 1, 1929, Sir Wallis contributed to the Conservative Evening Standard the obituary of Mike which became the basis of the present monograph, printed by R. Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay. Suffolk, and obtainable from Sir Wallis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Budge on Mike | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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