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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large room in a modest hotel on a Manhattan side street last week met a number of women and seven men. They sat at card-tables in groups of four. Of the women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge-Builders | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Birth Control is "the most dangerous subject on which the medical profession can express itself," Association President George Van Amber Brown dared to state. Honest, he repeated the popularly known fact that educated U. S. men and women generally know effective means of contraception. He urged birth-control knowledge for uneducated people. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of the University of Iowa would have the state do the educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A.A.O.G.A.S. | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Mlle. Maya Keila, prima ballerina in Christopher Morley's revival "The Black Crook," is not much interested in Harvard students or in college men in general. Or such was the statement she made in an interview which took place during the matinee last Saturday behind the scenes in the Shubert Apollo Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACK CROOK DANCER LOVES BOSTON LITTLE | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Because of the unusually large entry of 135 men in Class A of the annual University fall tennis tournament, it is announced that all opening matches must be played by tonight. The draw of this division will be found in Cowles' Tennis and Squash Shop, on Mt. Auburn Street. With 108 entries in Class B. first and second round matches must be played by tomorrow night; about 80 teams are expected in the doubles, the entries for which close tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL TENNIS TOURNEY DRAWS 243 COMPETITORS | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Class A tournament, the favorite and seeded number one is Harris Coggeshall 1L a graduate of Grinnell College in 1928, and ranked fourteenth in National Men's Singles. Number two is Arthur Ingraham '30, who played second man on the team last year, and was elected Captain for next spring. He is followed by W. L. Breese '30, whose work at number three position on last year's undefeated team is well-remembered, and R. A. Murphy '33, a former National Indoor Junior Champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL TENNIS TOURNEY DRAWS 243 COMPETITORS | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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