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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern Harvard is a University a University which prides itself on the vitality of its undergraduate curriculum and the favorable opportunities afforded for the development of undergraduate life. In America today a young man when he has completed his school course, has a wide range of choice in regard to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Praises Freedom and Interchange of Views Made Possible by Atmosphere of Large University | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

This year's cotton crop is estimated (as of August i) at 11,412,000 bales. Average U. S. consumption (1928-38) is 5,919,000 bales. So a bad situation seemed certain to grow worse. If Europe fights it may grow still worse, for war normally reduces cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Ugly Facts | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Nope. Mr. Klein's act would never do. The Hobby Lobby has some 5 million listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Lady Falkland, after her husband's death, imagined that Byron (he had never seen her) was in love with her. She thought the women mentioned in his poems were herself. Her sons, Lucius and Plantagenet, shared her delusion. She wrote: ''Surely I cannot be mistaken! Byron, my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Byron refused to answer Lady Falkland but had her informed that she was mistaken and that if she continued to annoy him, he would insult her. Her final disillusioned blast: "Don't write to me. I will not open any letters from you-nor will I see you if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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