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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a citizen of Lansing. Mich. (pop. 80,000) despaired of adult education in his city last May when lack of funds shut down the municipally-financed evening school. But such defeatists reckoned without Try. (for Trygve) Narvesen, Norwegian-born secretary of the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: People's University | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...processed almost as much meat as he ever had before. ''It was our job to see that the daily cash market . . . was kept open, and we did it,'' said President Swift at a stockholders' meeting in Chicago last week. "No meat surplus spoiled for lack of facilities." He informed his stock holders that gross sales for 1933 had been a little over $500,000,000, that tonnage had increased 6%, but that profits were only a fraction of a cent per pound. Then he added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: House of Swift | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

This will be the B.U. hockey team's first game since its last encounter with the Crimson; and it is expected that a lack of reserves will be its greatest drawback in this game, as it was in the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY SKATERS FAVORED OVER B.U. IN GAME AT ARENA | 1/26/1934 | See Source »

...pseudo, 'to-hell-with-everything' attitude of Harvard." Having gotten off to a rousing start, he reached a dramatic climax with the statement, "Right now I would be willing to bet that Lawrenceville could beat Yale. Harvard, or Princeton in tennis. This can be attributed chiefly to lack of proper coaching and playing conditions." We agree with Helen Jacobs. Vines must be running Tilden awfully ragged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/24/1934 | See Source »

...Hasler-Dewey-Beale combination which started against Princeton, and with the return of Lane, who is still unable to use his injured leg for many minutes at a time, the defense should be considerably strengthened. Watts and Gleason both filled this position effectively, but there was a noticeable lack of reserve material to take their places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON DOWNS CRIMSON SKATERS IN LIVELY CONTEST | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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