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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course the tendency in judging the Yardlings is to look for stars with weight with a view to working them into the varsity. In that respect this present squad has been somewhat disappointing; there aren't any Spreyers or Lees here, but the brand of football displayed Saturday was aggressive and good, and should win more games before the season is over...

Author: By John W. Saliantins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...last month amid arc lights that made the Indian Legislative Assembly Hall at Simla, the summer capital, look like a film studio, six-foot Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, read to a hushed gathering a long telegram from His Majesty the King. The telegram explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Never Again! | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...London, Prime Minister Chamberlain announced that the Admiralty was already putting into operation a "prearranged plan" to cope with all this. The plan was apparently to send out part of Britain's American squadron, the cruisers York, Berwick, Exeter, to look for the raider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Old Game | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

admire, discuss, or look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Turk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...when it shows U. S. average citizens organized by some mysterious agency to wreck airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs by night in factories where the bomb-planters make their living by day, then uncorks a Hollywood program of vigilantes and kangaroo courts for dealing with them, Sabotage begins to look like the well-timed opening gun in a campaign to shoot for the witch-hunter trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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