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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addresses. An "R" or a "D" showed which party they were registered under, and those who had already voted were checked off. The season was open for the other Republicans. You started canvassing at one end of the street and looked at the other with a longing eye. The longer the street the more longing...

Author: By John T. Mccutcheon jr., | Title: Disguised Students Canvassing for Republican Votes Find Ignorance of "Dat Guy Harvard," Support of Thalberg | 11/10/1938 | See Source »

Asserting that it's one thing to talk about collective security and another to "realize that it no longer exists," President Baxter of Williams last night doubted the possibility of cooperation between England and American in both Europe and the Far East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baxter Doubts Possibility of An Anglo-American Alliance | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...experiences the dog, cat or guinea pig learns to avoid shock by running the moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness of the signal until the animal no longer responds by running. Dogs, which hear best, have about the same acuity as human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Feeling and Hearing | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...agreed that Cambridge was "awfully dull" and wished that she could have stayed in New Haven longer. "The boys there never study," she said. "It's much easier to hitch-hike there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorines Visiting in Cambridge Agree Hitch-Hiking is Better in New Haven | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Constitution | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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