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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tilden purification did not necessarily mean that he will be on the 1929 Davis Cup Team for the U. S. There is a plan to develop a team, all of younger players. The Davis Cup drawings were made last week in Paris with President Doumergue of France presiding. The U. S. plays Canada first, Japan to meet the winner. England plays Poland. France, the cup holder, waits until the challenge round. Other pairings, as usual, have a musical comedy aspect: Mexico v. Cuba, Austria v. Czechoslovakia, Belgium v. Rumania, Denmark v. Chile, Greece v. Jugoslavia, Norway v. Hungary, Monaco...
This statement can only mean that Rumania has received what she considers a satisfactory assurance that Russia-will not in future try to get back Bessarabia. Any other understanding would not, from the Rumanian point of view, leave the Bessa-rabian question "finally settled...
What did that mean-Bessarabia? Oracle Litvinov did not explain. Perhaps he was alluding to the several hundred pinpricks and quarrels which have estranged Bucharest and Moscow. But whatever he meant, 'his words provoked no slightest frown or trace of annoyance on the smiling face of Carol A. Davila...
...spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub," and the laugh that will greet this prank...
...type of examination which finds extreme expression in the English 32 mid-year paper is fortunately by no means universal at Harvard. But it is common enough to merit thoughtful attention. Its outstanding characteristics are length and purely factual emphasis. Both tend to minimize the importance of thought and selection on the part of the writer. Assuredly an examiner should demand facts in the answers to his questions; but this does not mean that facts must come tumbling out of the writer like nickels from an opened slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge...