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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League contests, the Crimson have come to bat 214 times and have pounded out 60 hits for a 283 average average, good enough to pace the loop in this department. The boys haven't shown up so badly afield either, for they have handled 242 chances with but ten miscues. This record gives them a mark of .960, the second best fielding average compiled in the League to date. But for the Cornell debacle, the Stahlmen would be coasting along with an average about 20 percentage points higher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE HOLDS FIRST IN EASTERN DIAMOND FIGHT | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Roewer and Calfee are both Seniors and may break into the lineup if they can acquire a bit more consistency. Calfee has started slowly and needs more work to bring his game up to its peak; Roewer has a long tee shot but he too wild. With more practice, either of these men could press Elbel and Dickerman for their positions...

Author: By Donald Paddis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/4/1939 | See Source »

...been the collision of a resistible force with a movable object. The battlefronts have been extremely elastic. Last week a Chinese military spokesman coined a new phrase for China's war plan: "rubber-band tactics"-let the Japanese stretch their various lines of advance until they are either snapped back or bound around. Last week the bands were being stretched and relaxed at the following points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Rubber-Band Tactics | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...portfolio of 50 houses actually built for $1,000-$2,000 families, with an accompanying study of cost factors, shows that such houses must not cost much more than $3,300. Under present conditions this usually means either 1) a two-story box with six rooms or a one-story bungalow with five; 2) a lot not over 40 ft. wide; 3) quantity building on more or less identical plan. The challenge to architects: to face this fundamental problem in design, which now in many cases goes by default to builders without benefit of architect, with frequently characterless results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brass Tacks | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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