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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iowa looked a shade better than Michigan but could not prove it. Neither scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Little '10, former president of the University of Michigan and director of the American Society for the Corny of Cancer, will lecture on "Birth Country at the Harvard Liberal Club today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little to Speak | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Whenever a huddle of Gophers held out their arms to catch a pass, a Michigan man popped up and intercepted it. Pharmer did some good passing and kicking for his own side. Michigan 7, Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Dime novels were inaugurated by Manhattan Publishers Erastus & Irwin Beadle who sold the first five million between 1860-64. Who dared say that lordly persons were above them? There was Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dimeworthy Writers | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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