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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lack of interest has brought about the definite postponement of the McKinlock Hall smoker. This statement was made yesterday by Kent Sanger '34, president of the Dormitory Committee of McKinlock Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMITTEE DROPS PLANS FOR SMOKER AT McKINLOCK HALL | 2/13/1931 | See Source »

...something be done to prevent the failure of the supply of blue books that sometimes occurs at examinations? On occasions it has been necessary to employ the covers of the blue books and other means of filling out the lack of material with which to complete a paper. Memorial Hall seems to be the place where the supply of blue books is most prone to fall. Perhaps the fact that examinations in large courses are held there is largely responsible for the insufficiency which sometimes occurs. That, however, does not mitigate the annoyance. (Name withheld by request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caught Short | 2/12/1931 | See Source »

There are not enough Churchill Tories in Britain to win him an election on oratory alone, but it seemed more than likely that he would not lack for financial and press backing. Ever since Stanley Baldwin beat them so decisively on the question of a protective tariff (TIME, Nov. 10), the Press Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook have thirsted for revenge, hunted for a champion. Britons waited last week to see if Winston Churchill was to become that champion, whether the Rothermere- Beaverbrook-Churchill combination would be strong enough to unhorse plodding Leader Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Saved Again | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Jews got on the chained air very early. Rabbis and laymen gave talks which were not, strictly speaking, sermons. They used 15 N. B. C. stations. But their interest was irregular. Jews lack a strong cooperating, representative organization in the U. S. That lack is the presumptive explanation of Jewry's abandonment since last September of broadcasting over N. B. C. However, The Day (Yiddish daily) now sponsors a Jewish Art Program Sundays (12:00-12:30 p.m.) over 29 Columbia stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Air Worship | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Osbert Sitwell, polite writer, never prints an ill-bred remark, never lets his feelings run away with him. To many a critic he seems to lack the generosity of passion; but his chilly wit is often piercing. Of the playing fields of Eton he says: "But then one must remember, that which one did not realize at the time: education in Europe was, unconsciously, a preparation for death, not for life. Events proved it right. They died, as the saying goes, like gentlemen: which was the object of their education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atheism to Theosophy* | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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