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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keeping its stroke down to below thirty for a good part of the race, the Cornell sight pulled ahead slowly with their most comparatively free of water. The failure of the Crimson to respond in the storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Rain, Sleet, Hail Pelt Varsity Eights as Cornell Crew Snaps Crimson's String | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

From the minute Shirley Mann began to sing "I'm Checking Home Now" till the ensemble's final triumphant warning that "The Cradle Will Rock," Marc Blitzstein's music drama had a sympathetic Sanders Theatre audience. Saturday night. If the test of a good play is its grip on the listeners, then "The Cradle" was a success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

When all arguments for and against various attempts at neutrality legislation are set aside, the unobscured fact remains that our great and not-always-so-good country is supplying the Japanese military machine with well over 50% of its war materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...writers on Japan agree that the most serious handicap to beauty, of the Japanese women, is their short legs. Good Mayor LaGuardia is similarly handicapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...United States will I condemn millions of men and women to the dry rot of idleness on a dole. . . . I do not have to be told that 5% of the projects are of questionable value. . . . I am proud of the fact that 95% of the projects are good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Critics Damned | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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