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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course it is almost impossible to climb with a lacquer base on the skis, so for practice slope work, some one of the climbing slope waxes can be used to help out. But in any climb of extended length it is much better to use the very efficient plushskin or moleskin...
...Springfield natator hung up a record of 2:18:8 for the furlong, best ever made in the league compromising the smaller colleges such as Amherst, Brown, Wesleyan, and Williams. Powers swam a strong race all the way, but Rawstrom's final surge carried him half a body's length ahead to win. Powers' time (unofficial), 2:19:7, was exactly the same as his clocking in the Freshman meet against Yale last year...
Eric Cutler beat Rawstrom in the 440 in the good time of 5:09.3, but the Gymnast tankman was obviously spent from his 220 effort and failed to provide as close a race as was expected. However, Cutler swam a heady race, lagging a body's length behind Rawstrom during the first 100, then gradually pulling away from...
THIS volume should attract attention if only for the reason that it contains the largest number of sonnets ever published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
...novelties that he has done what I doubt if any other living poet could do; and that is, to publish himself fully, delicately, and beautifully in a book composed entirely of sonnets, or quasi-sonnets." And the same might be said of this, his third book, ten times the length of the first...