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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first trip to points of prehistoric interest will meet at 2 o'clock Saturday at Washington Heights, Brighton. There Laurence La Forge '99 will examine the conglomerate, shale, sandstone, and volcanic rocks and will point out the main features of the Boston Basin from the hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Nearby Field Trips Are Scheduled for Public | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

...main trouble is expected to come from the weather conditions. Washburn said that the advance party reported less than three hours good weather in the last month. The goal of the present trip is Mt. St. Agues, 13,250 feet high dwarfed by a neighboring 17,500 foot peak which Washburn sealed last summer with Robert R. Bates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expedition Leaves for Alaska To Take Aerial Photographs | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...Catalonian front Rightist troops advanced 40 miles along the mountainous French border to within ten miles of the tiny State of Andorra. They controlled at week's end nine of the twelve main roads from Spain to France. Barcelona Leftists again purged suspected Rightist sympathizers, two cinema theatres being necessary to hold one night's haul. Leftist organ La Vanguardia philosophized that such measures "repugnant as they are to a spirit of liberalism, are justified by the circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Repugnant But Justified | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...extent of sowing only 35,463,792 acres up to last week whereas the State had ordered them to sow by then 48,705,881 acres. Thus far, according to Izvestia, 17% of the total sowing scheduled for this spring has been done. Thus, despite all censorship, the main fact came out that Dictator Stalin, having suddenly realized how much trouble is up, has leaped in with concessions which he hopes will persuade the peasantry to start sowing seed full blast this spring, before it is too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Searchlight Backward | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood by I. J. Kapstein. Main trouble with "novellas" seemed to be that they added length but no depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Stories | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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