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...least fitted to be president of Harvard" must remain nameless, as far as the Harvard Critic is concerned, it was revealed last night. The Critic, which will publish its second issue next week will contain no results of the poll started in its opening number, because to date no ballots have been received. In its first issue, the Critic published a ballot which readers were invited to fill out with the name of the candidate least fitted for the presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRITIC POLL FAILS TO NAME WORST HARVARD PRESIDENT | 4/21/1933 | See Source »

...Friends!" he began. "This is a day of national consecration. . . . The only thing we have to fear is fear itself- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: We Must Act | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Born. To the U. S. Naval Academy's football mascot goat, Old Bill; and a nameless nanny of the Academy's herd: two kids; in Annapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 13, 1933 | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

...NAMELESS CRIME-Walter S. Masterman-Button ($2). Scotland Yard spots, but does not punish, the murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...little insect is the botfly. It irritates cattle and has no bristles. Odder still is a nameless fly, distant cousin to the housefly, whose larvae live by crawling into other insects, such as Japanese beetles and gypsy moths, and eating them from the inside. Between these two flies science recognized no kinship, but the Smithsonian Institution's Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bristled Botfly | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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