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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard and Yale football will be sketched, beginning with the first game at Hamilton Park, New Haven, on November 13, 1875. The Harvard-Yale game has been an annual event since that time, except for a break during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF HARVARD-YALE FOOTBALL TO BE BROADCAST | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...heavy squad included all the H men from last year's varsity shell except Captain Clark, who at present is holding a first string tackle berth on the University eleven; and Guy Murchie '29 who is running cross country. Besides these men, there are the oarsmen from last year's Freshman boat, only one of whom is at present ineligible because of scholastic difficulties. Five of the men from last year's championship class crew also were out regularly. The rest of the squad was composed of other class and dormitory crew men. For the first time in several years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL ROWING DISCLOSES POWER ON CREW SQUADS | 11/17/1928 | See Source »

Young Love. She was the little girl who got wet in Orphans of the Storm and wore an arresting white dress in Nell Gwynne. That has nothing to do with a play called Young Love which opened in Manhattan last week, except that Dorothy Gish, 30, is back on the stage playing opposite her husband, James Rennie, and Lillian Gish is still in the movies and still unmarried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...that bar are exactly one metre apart. That Paris metre is the modulus of the world's weights and measures.* If the standard bar were lost, and all its master duplicates in the capitals of civilized countries, scientists would be hard put to recalculate the metre distance, except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light & Sight | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

National Chairman Raskob received from one W. H. Ridgeway, of San Antonio, Tex., an "appeal to your spirit of sportsmanship.'' Mr. Ridgeway thought that Nominee Hoover was going to carry "every State in the Union except Louisiana, Mississippi. Georgia and South Carolina" (The Literary Digest's straw vote predicted that Nominee Hoover would carry Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina). He asked Mr. Raskob to get these States to ''fall in line" and "make it unanimous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Make it Unanimous | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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