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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formed in response to a demand for a non-partisan society on foreign policy, The Foreign Relations Group will hold its initial meeting tonight at 7:15 o'clock in the upstairs common room of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brinton to Talk at Meeting Of Foreign Relations Club | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...Cepheid variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams enable measurement of great interstellar distances, may prove also to hold important new clues to forces at work within the great island universes, or galaxies like our own Milky Way, Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, recently told the National Academy of Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUE TO GALAXIES IS IN CEPHEID VARIABLES | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson line, Soule at right guard, Tudor Gardiner at left right guard, and Wood at left tackle will feel the brunt of the Dartmouth attack. John Dimeff and Sears hold down the starting end posts and Sheldon Dietz is entrenched in the center post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMAR'S JAYVEE SQUAD SET FOR INDIAN TILT | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Make no mistake about that Indian line. As long as the first-string men are able to hold out, Dartmouth will probably have a slight edge on Harvard. Line tutor Ellinger has a habit of coming up with a pretty good forward wall, and this year is no exception. Nevertheless, the Green are green and are quite capable of being duped by Harvard gulle...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Founded in 1873 by Charles Scribner's Sons, then taken over by the Century Co., St. Nicholas began to decline after World War I as children turned to movies, radio, comic strips, and children's tastes grew steadily more sophisticated. To hold its market St. Nicholas lowered its age appeal year by year. Still circulation dropped: from a onetime high of around 100,000 it was down to less than 25,000 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Nicholas to Woolworth's | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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