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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a horizontal arc "which he holds momentarily," then lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less complicated back flip) and Duos (synchronized tumbling by two or more...
Except for a few games still to be played here & there, the U. S. college football season ended last week. Reviewing the season, most football students agreed that the No. 1 team of 1939 was Tennessee, undefeated, untied, unscored-on in nine games, while it rolled up a total of 205 points. Close on its cleated heels were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
...C.L.I.D. is respectable enough, but its critics have found it more complacent toward Communism than toward Fascism. After the Russo-German pact, The Living Church (Episcopal weekly) called upon Secretary Spofford to declare himself anew. He did so in a letter which the magazine published, and answered editorially, last week. Excerpts...
...with those bright enough to understand what is going on, suggesting that I am falling for 'their essentially un-Christian propaganda.' Well, I think I know un-Christian propaganda when I see it and there is rather more of it, in this war as in the last, coming from Christian pulpits and editorial offices of Church papers than from Union Square...