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Picturesque Jan Christiaan Smuts was on hand in Cape Town for the Parliamentary fray, last week, having come in from his tiny, iron-roofed shack on the veldt near Pretoria. There he recently completed, in philosophical mood, a work called Holism, setting forth "a philosophy of life reconciling everything within the Universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Blackamoor Bill | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...younger brother, who rushed into the House of Commons fray last week, is Lord Hugh Cecil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cabinet on Brink | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...World knows its Harvard, knows the hopes that come with each Freshman Class and leave again, sometimes, with the seniors. And in it all the great metropolitan daily sees a significant object lesson. Old Gold goes down, but the fight goes on, and when the final smoke from the fray has cleared persistency will win the day. For dejected Freshmen remains the moral: Not a defeat in a class full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD GOLD COAST | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...Holbrook '30 was the main cog in the forward line in the New Year's Eve fray and his clever pass-work was a repeated threat on the Canadian goal. Batchelder showed up better than ever before at defense and fed the forwards continually after breaking up the strong Toronto attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEXTET FACES TORONTO AGAIN TONIGHT | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...third chukker Coach F. D. Sharp sent his second team into the fray, a lead of 11 to 9 having been established. Though unable to score, this combination also showed possibilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY AND 1932 POLO TEAMS TRIUMPH | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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