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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corporal Henry Finch of Roslindale took the CRIMSON staff car through rows of sentries who kept vandals from the devastated areas to the sand banks where some of the Harvard men were on guard. "We are shifted all around," said Seargent Geoffrey W. Lewis '34, former tutor and assistant dean, "sometimes we're on a highway, sometimes in a cranberry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men Brave Elements To Serve With State Militia | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

...Boston, out of spring, practice due to an appendectomy, cannot possibly push Wilson out yet, at any rate. At tailback Austie Harding holds a windward berth on Frank Foley, one of the heroes of last year's Yale clash, mainly due to the fact that a minor injury has kept Foley out of scrimmage for a week...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Gridmen In High Gear Compared to '37 | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...entered the area near the Czechoslovakian border coming from Germany," they said, "we kept noticing greater and greater readiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors Find Czechs Prepared To Resist Invasion by Nazis | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...staff is less concerned with comparative size than with the problem of administering what is already there so that books will be quickly and easily available. To this end the length of time during which a book may be kept out of the library has been reduced from a month to two weeks. This change was made last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library, Third Largest in United States, Opens Its Unlimited Resources to University's Newest Students | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...years before the Civil War no one knew which way the Border States would go if war came. They vacillated, compromised, stood on one political foot and then the other, kept the country on pins and needles till the last moment. The literary inheritors of this Border-State vacillation are the Southern regionalists: Poets Allen Tate. John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson. Novelists Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). John Peale Bishop, et al., from the divided States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia. Subtle, urbane and inexhaustibly energetic, they straddle the question of the South's inevitable industrialization, preach a Southern culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Border State of Mind | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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