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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasn't so amazed," he said at Varsity practice yesterday. "You can't give these Canadian teams like Queens or Toronto the jump too often, because they are faster than we are." In answer to whether the Toronto flasco was due to poor defensive play, Hodder stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN DOWNED 4-2 BY BELMONT SEXTET | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Those who sensed quickly what had happened rolled off the cars. Frozen to their seats with shock and fear, the others held on until it was too late. Faster, faster, faster rolled the rake, rocking crazily as it gathered speed. Panic-stricken miners flung themselves over the side. Some were bounced off the bedrock walls, hurled under the wheels of the rear cars as they whizzed past. A few miners grabbed at a heavy, covered power line which ran along the roof of the low shaft and hung on, knees pulled high to clear the rows of seats, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Underground Runaway | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Feslermen have been hard at work since Wednesday's drubbing at the hands of the Brown Bears, and they hope to present a faster breaking attack to offset their decided height disadvantage in tonight's clash. Coach Mel Collard's men will be out to avenge the 42 to 29 set-back they received last year at the hands of the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Hoopmen Meet Unbeaten Boston University Five Tonight | 12/17/1938 | See Source »

...promise, but nothing concrete just yet to smooth the furrowed Ulen brow. Frank Powers will be a good middle-distance man--eventually. Johnny Quinlan and Freddie Griffin are expected to be good for a lot of seconds in the 50 and 100. "One-Breath" MacMaster needs more time for faster 50's. Distance men Ed Hewitt and Bob White are both pluggers who seem to thrive on work, but they've got to show results soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

...that his home was no place for him, instead placed him in its Children's Institute at Ann Arbor. A year later Chris was released to Mrs. Harriet Atwood, wealthy farmer's widow, began attending the one-room Bigelow Rural School in Calhoun County, Michigan. He grew faster than most of his 15 schoolmates, got pretty good marks in everything but conduct. was soon demanding special privileges because his foster mother was president of the school board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bad Boy's Background | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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