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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High jump Triple tie among Creese (E), Dubiel (H), and Reiche (H). Height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1937 TRACKMEN WIN | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...general, these cold waves are not due to the presence of icebergs as some people would have us believe. As a matter of fact, the arctic region does travel southward during the winter but this has very little part in producing these frigid temperatures we are experiencing. At a height of eight or nine miles above the surface of the earth the temperature is about thirty degrees below zero...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather Man Unable To Give Basic Causes of Unusually Severe Winter | 2/27/1934 | See Source »

...harrowing experience was Publisher Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram. As an authority on meteors Publisher Perry declared: "The fact that Sheridan saw the meteor disappear is conclusive proof that he was not very close to it, because most meteors cease to glow at a height of about five miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...other spirits which we expected would last until midnight, when we hoped they would move on to another supply that we had placed several miles down the river. Hearing the sound of the drums, people flocked in from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew and remained with us until seven o'clock in the morning. The promise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corn Beer Proved Too Much For Natives at Ball Given by Two Harvard Archaeologists in Panama | 2/23/1934 | See Source »

Coach Fesler sends Comfort into the game tonight to improve the Crimson's team work which has always been the chief fault with the team's offense. Comfort was on the first team during the first part of the season until Fesler found that the Harvard five lacked height in its games with the tall League opponents, so Bob Morse, who measures six foot, three inches, was moved up to the first team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESLER MAKES CHANGE IN BASKETBALL LINEUP | 2/14/1934 | See Source »

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