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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of speaking, Mrs. Roosevelt attended the commencement hop. In a gay print dress and highest spirits, she square-danced, Virginia-reeled and trucked with partners young & old (see cut). The President roamed in his car through the Arthurdale project, stroked the muzzle of the community's prize cow, said: "That's a West Virginia moose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Attack at Arthurdale | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...more advanced course in the Athenian Drama, Greek 2, has the highest literary value of any course until Greek 12. It is given by Professor Post whose widely cultured background includes a Professorship here in Fine Arts. This course also suffers from Einarson's definitely poor teaching. The Elementary Composition course, Greek 3, described as "tough but rewarding", assists the student both to a knowledge of the language and an appreciation of Greek style. Either this or Latin 3 is required for honors. Plate and Aristotle and a survey of Greek Philosophy from Thales to Aristotle are handled in Greek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...party intends to climb Mt. St. Agnes, 15 miles from the base camp and the highest mountain in the un-charted area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Washburn Reports Self Set For Push on Chugach Range | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

...sweetness & light, and consequently much different from his usual pessimistic and obscene prose. It was rejected. Jewish musicians, actors and production managers, he decided, wanted the girls themselves. For the next 337 pages of Trifles for a Massacre he pours forth his wrath in a prose style of the highest order, bold and original imagery, and Rabelaisian curses no one of which could be printed in the U. S. Hitler and Goebbels are too shy and inhibited to satisfy him; to their usual charges that the Jews control the Communist International and the democratic countries, he adds the unkindest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Semitic Exercise | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...passenger business is in short hauls, for which "substratosphere" flight is useless, since the time used for climbing and gliding eats up what is saved by high flight; 3) because there is little wind in the substratosphere and because prevailing winds at lower levels are westerly, highest altitudes do not make for highest speeds on West-East flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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