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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...none and have been no rebellious tribes in the Riff since the spring of 1927 when . . . the last of the partisans of Aid el Krim [were] subdued and brought under French control. . . . Since then the Riff has been absolutely peaceful, on the French side of the divide at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Lampooners put up a game fight, but from the moment when Mayor Jimmy Walker, or at least some one who thought he looked like Jimmy, threw out the first ball they never had a chance. Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, started the game in the box but being somewhat erratic was soon replaced by Philip Hichborn '29. Hichborn found the going under foot somewhat slippery but on the whole did very creditably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Diamond Warriors Take Stupendous Mud Battle by Conventional Count-Fighting Lampoon Nine Loses 23 to 2 | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

...fear that through further vicissitudes Europe may become in its poverty completely subservient to the United States. For the prevention of such as eventuality, two courses are open, commercial rehabilitation with the relinquishment of custom barriers and trade competition, and more remotely and disastrously, war. And it is not least in the realization that the second possibility is often a reality when the economic balance is destroyed, that the Pan-American Union is felt necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TARDY COOPERATION | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

...true that much of the advance of aeronautics, like that of the automobile industry, has arisen from the demand for greater speed. But if the brick speedway was a risky school of improvement, the air is at least equally dangerous. The Harvard Flying Club has made its original fulfillment of its two most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FLYING CLUB RACES | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

...baseball game between the staffs of our estimable contemporaries, the Harvard CRIMSON and the Daily Princetonian, if not definitely settling the question of muscular supremacy between their respective institutions, at least demonstrated the amazing fact that undergraduates of the two universities represented are still capable of competing against each other without bloodshed or even injured feelings. In fact, so delighted were the editors at this discovery that each publication has since suggested and urged the renewal of official athletic relations between their universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

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