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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland. Jock Sutherland, who learned his football under famed Pop Warner, is the envy of every other football coach in the country this year. He has what they call a "dream backfield''-powerful running backs who can block, kick and handle passes with equal skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dream Team | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

There was equal confusion on how much money actually would be spent. One estimate was as low as $79,000,000 a year to provide the new generators, boilers, etc. necessary to eliminate power "bottle-necks," modernize plants in war material centres. Floyd Carlisle, however, thought expenditure might reach $2,000,000,000 in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Immediate Orders | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Their children were placed in better than average homes. After one and one-half to six years, the children were tested and their average I. Q. was 116, equal to the average for children of university professors. More remarkable still, 30 children in the group, who had feeble-minded mothers, also had an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: I. Q. Control | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...calm moonlight after blowing up the gasworks at Talavera de la Reina; a fire fighter in Madrid atop his ladder, turning his fire hose in a last, hopeless, defiant gesture against an airplane machine-gunning him; Asturian dinamiteros, "the last body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished procession stretching through vast ravines like a living symbol of the peasants' view of war-such flashes as these make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Spain | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Varsity debaters will be polite but firm this afternoon when they argue with a trio from Vassar on the value, if any, of the Equal Rights For Women amendment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS MEET VASSAR | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

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