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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publishing the enormous number of prints necessary to make them available to the general public at a price within its means, it is natural to expect that some of the prints may not measure up to the very highest standards. However, by the testimony of many prominent educators, the prints in general meet well the purpose for which they were intended and some, at least, are of really fine quality. If any further evidence of this is needed, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Jon Corbino and Thomas Benton have expressed themselves as pleased with the reproductions of their own paintings...
...hearings, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, said his last say in behalf of the bill. According to him, the Navy needed every penny of the money because costly $65,000,000 battleships were still the best available allaround naval weapons. The nation's highest ranking seadog announced that "recent air operations on the Coast of China" had convinced him that airplanes alone could not prevent an enemy expeditionary force from landing, and that airplanes alone could not successfully prevent a blockade or act as a convoy...
...ideals of Harvard College, the scene in the State House yesterday afternoon would have been a sorry spectacle. He would have seen a handful of well-meaning but deluded teachers vainly hurling themselves under the juggernaut of Massachusetts politics. He would have seen men and women trained in the highest form of public service discovering at long last that the fate of a law hinged not on its justice, not on its wisdom, but on its probable benefit to the law-makers. Legislating is a form of vote getting...
Before coming to coach at Harvard nine years ago, Peroy was one of the highest ranking non-professionals in the United States. Unable to accept an invitation to the 1924 Olympics, Percy did compete as the number two man in 1928. At this time he defeated the French national foils champion...
...Harvard-Yale relay was easily the high spot of the evening, the crowd reaching its highest emotional pitch (excluding the one-minute silence for founder George V. Brown) when Lightbody bore down upon and passed Gardner Millet in the last stretch of the dramatic race...