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...with Princeton, Harvard has traveled a long road, leading it ever farther from the ways of the black and gold. Despite the cheery words of athletic directors about "natural rivals" and "the Big Three," apathy and the indisputable fact of the House plan, with all that it implies, may imperil the hoped-for importance of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CAT COMES BACK | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...MacNider, commander in 1921, was made an Assistant Secretary of War. Later he was made Minister to Canada. Last week he resigned that job to return to the U. S. for the Republican campaign. His chief job will be to persuade the Legion that cashing the Bonus now would imperil the national credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Again, Bonuseers | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...Like all Frenchmen," said he, "Maginot was profoundly devoted to peace, but he considered that France unarmed was exposed to aggressions which would imperil not only France's existence but the stability of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death & Crisis | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil his life, there occurs the scene in which Elissa Landi, imprisoned in the Baron's chambers, is informed by him that "we must all make sacrifices for those we love." Every heroine's Samaritanism has some limits. Elissa Landi shoots the Baron, escapes with the journalist in the opportune confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...before the period of prolongation of credits recommended by the London Conference comes to an end, the Powers represented at the London Conference should give the world confidence in international political relations and the assurance that international payments to be made by Germany will not be such as to imperil the maintenance of her financial stability. . . The world has been endeavoring to pursue contradictory policies in developing a situation where annual payments of large sums have to be made by debtor to creditor countries, while at the same time putting obstacles in the way of the movement of goods with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Infernal Machine | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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