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Although the Rowe Cup regatta marks the opening of the season for both Tech and Harvard, the Engineers have been aiming for this meeting with all the enthusiasm of a final race. A victory ever the Bolles special would mark the highpoint of the season for the Techmen, who were shut-out completely by the Crimson last year...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Veteran M.I.T. Crew Plans Surprise In Meet Against Crimson Oarsmen | 4/16/1941 | See Source »

...addition to U.S. 1, the highpoint amateur outboarder receives successive odd numbers if he owns more than one boat; the highpoint professional receives successive even numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flying Shingles | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Highpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: TIME to Legion | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Fearing that a quick,, highpoint summary for advertising purposes would leave them wide open to sue-or-settle shysters, bankers clung to the "tombstone" (matter-of-record) announcement. Meantime they asked SEC for better definitions. Last week for the first, time since the Securities Act became effective, an advertisement for a new issue appeared in the oldtime form of a one-page prospectus. The firm that plunged with an offering of $45,000,000 Illinois Bell Telephone bonds was Morgan Stanley & Co., underwriting offshoot of the House of Morgan. Meticulously the Morgan advertisement referred readers to the offering prospectus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: SEC Week | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...Grinnell, Iowa, two barbers. Ed Jansen and John Ditzler, organized a ten-day, highpoint craps-match, patterned after the Lenz-Culbertson bridge match, to demonstrate the respective merits of the "African twist" v. "cotton roll." Late results, posted on the barber shop window, showed that Barber Ditzler, using the cotton roll, was 17 passes up on Barber Jansen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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