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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customers who arrived yesterday in Montreal from England on a Canadian liner. He was told that the gentleman had himself seen the missing German liner Bremen towed into a British port (either north of England or in Scotland, but the latter probably correct) over two weeks ago with the name plates and a few other identifying features already removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Radcliffe group, liberally sprinkled with upperclass women, were name tags around their necks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beauty Contest at Harvard-Radcliffe Tea Off, but Upperclassmen Rate Girls | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

This song of praise for "the oldest college daily" is contained in a recent circular put out by the New Haven journalists in an effort to bolster up a sagging circulation with name Vassar subscriptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJUVENATED YALE DAILY SEEKS VASSAR SUBSCRIBERS | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...importance. In case anyone has forgotten this, there is "What a Life" to bring back those memories, fond or otherwise. Jackie Cooper is the butt of all situations that regularly occur in the average high school. Framed into being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted by Betty Field, from the popularity kid, played by one James Corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

Inertia is as powerful a force in sociology as it is in physics. Whenever some considerable evil exists, the community must be jolted lustily before it awakens to the fact. There must be even more prodding until the proper agencies begin to roll into action. Inevitably there is name-calling, vituperation, and bitterness. But after the initial splurge of fireworks, a steady process of renovation sets in, and the evil is creatively attacked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ANTI-TUTORING OFFENSIVE | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

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