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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more so because the opponent this time is Elis Yale. Sophomores and Juniors have inscribed their class numerals all over Coach Murdock's squad so they should be up and coming by now, but these pesky Hoddermen have had the pleasant habit of playing right up to the limit of their capacities this season when they actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson to Face Strong Athletes Tomorrow Night | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...Mississippian, one of the most influential members of the Senate, served notice that he will oppose President Roosevelt's plan to lift the legal limit of the National Debt from $45,000,000,000 to fifty billion...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...radio broadcast from Washington Sir Willmott ("Bill") Harsant Lewis, the London Times correspondent, quoted "two Englishmen who have had wide experience in European capitals" as warning: "It is on March 6 that Germany's warlike preparations will reach the full limit Chancellor Hitler thinks necessary for frightening Britain and France into giving away firstly to Italian demands, and secondly to wider colonial concessions." Sir Willmott himself was skeptical, did not himself believe Fuhrer Hitler wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ides of March | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Your recent editorial criticism of Professor Bridgman's Manifesto derives logically from the values of a democratic society. But there is a limit to the consistency of courses of action; self defense is part of a deeper logic for all men and all societies. At the present juncture of world circumstance, you have uttered a counsel in the logic of self-destruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...authors' fond hope, in portraying such girlish fun, "to capture the spirit of New York's glittering and legendary years." To their idyllic plot they have added an atmosphere as romantic as a pair of handcuffs, a sty's-the-limit vulgarity. To those who were not of theatre age in 1900, / Must Love Someone gives the impression that the Florodora Sextet included such glamor girls of the past as Red Light Annie, Chicago May and Lizzie Borden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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