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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...points gives Harvard somewhat near 55 points. This is probably more than they are set to get on paper, but in every meet they've run this year, the Harvard team has piled up more points than they were being picked for. The time has come to stand firm, and say Harvard will win easily. No more straddling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I.C.4A CHANCES DEPEND ON GREEN'S RECOVERY | 5/29/1936 | See Source »

...Alexander Preston Shaw, 57, of New Orleans, is editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Most Methodist bishops look alike, with their white faces, firm jaws, thin lips. Bishop Shaw is physically unique in that he is a Negro. He is to succeed retiring Negro Bishop Matthew Wesley Clair of Covington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of Columbus (Concl.) | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...name carries weight with economists as well as realtors. Born 40 years ago in St. Louis, he worked for several years on the Post-Dispatch, starting a commercial research department, later serving as national advertising manager. In 1929 he went into his father's real-estate firm to start another research department. Finding that his real-estate studies had far more than local interest, he launched Real Estate Analysts, Inc. as an advisory service to banks, insurance companies, real-estate firms. Though Researcher Wenzlick says the idea for his boom pamphlet was taken to Simon & Schuster, that smart firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pamphlet Boom | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...gained national renown as a maker of habitat models for the Anthropology Department, and went into private business in 1929, doing a series of historical tableaux as well as other archaeological and ethnological groups. Shortly before his death, the firm had completed a series of tree models of the School of Forestry which may come to be considered his finest work. He was famed in the craft for his uneanny ability to give an illusion of reality in his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAMUEL J. GUERNSEY OF PEABODY MUSEUM DIES | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...educated and manages to secure a job. What then of the end result; is his income necessarily and measurably more comfortable than that of the unadorned college graduate? Or perhaps, after he has had graduate work and becomes a job-holder, there may be five years "with a reputable firm" on a pittance which is not by any stroke of the imagination a living wage. The architect is often a case in point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE GRADUATE EDUCATION? | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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