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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Sir John had not anticipated was that his old friend, famed archeologist Professor Tennant, and his beautiful young daughter Lyn would take a fancy to the Hestia and go along as passengers. The professor and the captain liked each other's philosophizing. In mid-Atlantic the Hestia hit a hurricane, sent out an SOS intercepted by a Cunard liner with Sir John aboard. During the black hours before the liner reached the battered Hestia, the bosun went overboard, the chief engineer died, the professor's daughter found out the sullen first mate was not a gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tramp Thoreau | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store for "disorderly conduct." Detroit, where the Sit-Down epidemic began, remained its seething centre, and Detroiters last week were getting an idea of what a revolution feels like. Timid housewives laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Everybody's Doing It | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...games), tradition at least favors the Crimson cause, for it has been the custom for years that Yale loses the day after the Junior Prom. And illness has done the Elis no good, for Bill Moore, first line center, took to his bed a week ago, and defense men Lyn Wilson and Blake Shepard, and goalie Tom Stockhausen, are just getting back into the game after doctor-enforced rests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

...vice president and a new directorate, of which he was himself a member (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.) In Richmond last week, while two polio sergeants saw to it that nothing more potent than personalities were exchanged, the anti-Kemp factor won a completely decisive victory. Headed by Alphonso Lyn Ivey, ousted from the presidency in October, they got rid of Kemp-President F. Swift Gibson, Kemp-Vice President Gustavus Ober Jr., and eight Kemp directors, including Boss Kemp himself. Then Mr. Ivey went back into the presidency, along with the men who had served under him as vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fertilizer Fight (Cont'd) | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Varsity already looks the strongest in several years, with five veterans: Captain Bob Hunter, Lyn Lardner, George Enos, Charles Bellows, and Mansfield Branigan. Several men from last year's Jayvee squad are expected to make a showing, in addition to the Sophomores Peterson, Allis, Pierce, Mendelson, Olson, Prouty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Prospects Will Meet at Varsity Club on Monday | 9/28/1935 | See Source »

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