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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once that Vag has no intent to draw a crude and obvious analogy. Some may reason, since this is a football day, that Vag is inferring that Napoleon was a good soldier who was eventually defeated; and that West Pointers are good soldiers who may meet the same fate today. This logic, however, is too shallow. Football is not war, nor is the stadium a Waterloo battlefield for either team. Columbia has already given the soldiers a taste of defeat; but then Napoleon came back strongly after his Leipzig setback. The Little Corporal once more reigned supreme for the Hundred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/15/1938 | See Source »

...appeared that the North goal posts were to meet a similar fate, until hundreds of Crimson supporters, including Truesdale, thronged to the defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HORATIO CONQUERS ENEMY; SAVES GOAL POSTS | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...London, 78 6d), which thousands of Britons were reading last week. They knew for certain that fleets of German bombers were already being prepared in the Reich for quick takeoffs (see p. 15). Digging through Professor Haldane's 296 pages to learn what Science thought would be their fate and what Science advised could be done about it, Britons found crumbs of comfort only in the belief of Professor Haldane that no new and unprecedented weapons such as "death rays'' or "germ bombs" are likely at present to be held in reserve by any country for widespread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Trumpet | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Then frisky fate dealt Tex Langford as rude a bulldogging as any Panhandle dogie ever got. In over the Potato Patch whisked last week's hurricane (see p. 11) at week's end Tex's dream was jagged driftwood on the Gravesend strand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Panhandle Dream | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...meeting of President Hopkins and the 12 college trustees early in October is expected to reach a decision on the fate of the 100 year-old paper, which has been fighting college interference since the censorship question first arose last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily 'Dartmouth' in Fight to Avert Regulation by Authorities of College | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

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