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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What spurred the bondholders' committee to act last week was the failure of the college authorities to live up to a re-organization agreement made last year. Enriched by the proceeds of their 1935 Eastern tour, the Galloping Gaels took in $140,680 in gate receipts last season. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gaels Gloom | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

¶Charles W. Heath of Sioux City was granted a patent on a "submarine eye" for hunting sunken treasure. Essential feature is a television transmitter which will examine the sea floor, send pictures of what it sees to a screen on board the boat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

When he died in 1795, James Boswell left a reference in his will to his private papers stored in an ebony chest at the family seat of Auchinleck Castle, Scotland. For generations his descendants rebuffed enquiring scholars and collectors, claimed that the ebony chest had been destroyed. In 1927 Boswell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boswell in Full | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

During the greatest crises of the revolutionary government, it was always Stalin upon whom Lenin depended for support and counsel Trotsky was his legman at the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, but it is interesting to note two telegrams which Lenin sent in answer to Trotsky's request for instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

To Dr. Broom's joy the Sterkfontein skull was that of an adult, with fairly heavy brow ridges and a brain capacity of about 600 cc. He found some resemblances to the Taungs skull and some differences, therefore put his fossil in the same genus with Australopithecus but in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Heads | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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