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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of the joy of exploration in western Newfoundland consists in attempting to cross these snow-fields, a feat practically impossible unless one cuts steps in the icy masses; for although looking safe enough, these long-weathered snow-fields have a glassy surface, and it is easier to fall than to walk upon them. The photograph of my two companions at the lower edge of such a snow-field illustrates an experience which can be enjoyed on hundreds of slopes in late August after the melting days of summer are past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FERNALD DESCRIBES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...snort from the desk indicates that the fun of communal blue-book reading has begun, and shrunk when the cold glint in a proctor's eye shows he is wondering why you look at your watch so often. What is honor? A mere abstraction; but monitors are a perennial joy, and they must remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINKING OF THE MONITOR | 1/24/1930 | See Source »

...courses offered are Playwriting, Play Production, and Contemporary Theatre and its Background. Professor Love joy, formerly of the University of Washington, will be in charge of the first two mentioned while W. P. Eaton 100, and Professor H. W. L. Dana '03 will supervise the latter course. They will divide the work, Eaton instructing in a survey of the American Theatre and Professor Dana dealing with contemporary European drama. Members of the Board of Governors of the School will assist Professor Love joy by acting as visiting lecturers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL OF DRAMA ANNOUNCES THREE COURSES FOR YEAR | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

...little man was so overcome with joy that tears coursed steadily down his cheeks, sobs choked him. He was unable to respond to frenzied exhortations for a speech. The pandemonium lasted 15 minutes. Almost smothered by his well-wishers, Editor Leon Daudet clung to the famous taxi, the very cab in which last year he was spirited away from the Prison de la Santé to Brussels with French secret service men upon his track (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Triumphal Return | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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