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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think we need representation for Harvard in the Council," Maguire remarked. "Harvard does this community a lot of good and deserves more say in the local government. If Cambridge were run from Littauer Center, it couldn't be in worse condition than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Students Enter Fight For Cambridge City Council | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...through the British destroyers with loss of only one battleship. Each side claimed victory. The loss score was: German-one battleship, one battle cruiser, four light cruisers, five destroyers, a total of eleven. British-three battle cruisers, three armored cruisers, eight destroyers, total of 14. The British decorated a lot of their Admirals.* The Germans, though their fleet never emerged again until it was time to surrender, later made May 31 a national holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Jutland No. II | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Batory's new Captain Szudzinski discharged the lot of them, then called for volunteers to take the ship to Canada. Enough responded, but 200 went ashore, most of them traipsing off to the Polish Community Center in Yonkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ship Without a Country | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, the medical scientists who housekeep for vitamins have an unmanageable lot of charges. At present, for example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...must be admitted that American Communist leaders are a rather clever lot. Otherwise they could never--even to their own satisfaction--have squared Soviet Russia's recent actions with their traditional attitude. Perhaps they did squirm a bit at the outset. But with time and some amazing intellectual acrobatics, they were able to produce an explanation--a proof of the logic and inevitability and complete orthodoxy of the whole business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS AND STONES | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

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