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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This latter change seems much more likely to be of permanent significance. With Devens and Harper filling in at the other two positions the Crimson would have practically the best running backfield it could assemble. Putnam, Devens and Mays all are experts on the lateral pass and end runs while Devens and Harper could be called upon for thrusts at the line and off-tackle. The Wood-Putnam-Devens-Harper combination, however, should not be neglected. In all probability this quartet will get a thorough test against the Alligators with the remote idea of starting against Michigan the following week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN SHIFTS BACKS FREELY IN LONG SIGNAL DRILL | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

...game, common to all big cities-"coöperative" selling of loose (unbottled) milk. The New York milk racket was notable and illustrative by virtue of its central figure, a lank, loose-knit individual named Larry Fay. First taxicabs, then night clubs were Larry Fay's game, the latter in collaboration with famed Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan. Loose night clubs are crowded at the same, time of day that loose milk is delivered. When Prohibition closed one after another of his clubs, Larry Fay found it easy to switch to the milk business without any great change in work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Milk Racket | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...case, it may be expected that the new course will prove its faults in actual operation and that the Exeter authorities will come to a realization that some relation between studies and athletics must be maintained if an undue emphasis is not to be placed on the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXETER'S DECISION | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...CRIMSON reporter, not wishing to disturb her equanimity, refrained from suggesting the possibility of the latter event's never coming to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorothy Britton Interested in Pre Game Actions of Harvard and Dartmouth Men--Will be the Guest of Honor at Ball | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

...Library this week have taken on a decidedly religious aspect. In Widener room, the showing for the week is composed almost entirely of old bibles or prayer books, while the Treasure room is featuring a collection of the printings of Isiah Thomas, old publisher of Worcester, Massachusetts, in the latter part of the eighteenth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

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