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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the Freshman hockey team and University Seconds were successful in their initial games of the season at Charlesbank rink yesterday afternoon, the Freshmen beating Arlington High School by a score of 2 to 0, and the University Seconds beating Belmont Hill School by a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 AND SECONDS WIN OPENING HOCKEY GAMES | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...true that our State is hilly; we are PROUD of our HILLS! But that does not make those who farm the hills (it takes REAL farmers to farm hills!) 'hill-billies'. We admit our population contains some of the pioneer stock that descended from Boone and his contemporaries, people who are illiterate to a degree, but you must admit that the percentage of illiteracy you 'foot note' was made upon a census that included a large foreign population that work in our mines, brought in by capital, and NOT NATIVE WEST VIRGINIANS! And if you could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Shrewd Bachia Sakao, chief of the Shinwaris, had not only seized Mogubala Hill, overlooking Kabul, but had diverted a stream which furnished hydro-electric power to light the city and work the radio. For several days the whole of Kabul-even the legation quarter-was under rebel fire. Eventually the Shinwaris were driven back some 40 miles by loyal troops. Meanwhile Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ulya Hazrat flew out of Kabul by transport plane to Southern Afghanistan where she is especially popular, and besought the citizens of Kandahar to remain loyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Shrewd Rebels, Smart Mother | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Died. Dr. David Bancroft ("Debe") Johnson, 73, founder (1886) & president of Winthrop College for Women at Rock Hill, S. C., onetime President of the National Educational Association; of colitis; in Rock Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Sentimental. U. S. citizens like to patronize U. S. industry. Particularly do they like to honor the late great President Theodore Roosevelt, friend of Cuba, rugged rissaldar of Rough Riders at San Juan Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U. S. v. Cunard | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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