Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...milk the cows. A salesman of dairy farm equipment, ignorant of bovine prolificacy, when he saw Alta and six calves in one pen, inquired if she were the mother of all. Poth, seeing an opportunity to fool a "city slicker," did not discourage the idea. The salesman told a news reporter...
Hopes that the Harvard-Navy game would be broadcast over a Boston station were shattered last night when news came that no local station would carry the game. Both Columbia and National networks will run the encounter over a New York station, however...
Suddenly, over the rill which the two had just passed, came the sound of galloping hoofs, and with it a courier, out of breath and panting on his well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...
...vivid contrast, Freshman David Mitchell of Kentucky, and Harvard, blasted all precious records by devouring 18 successive ice creams after a full meal at the Union. This is indeed a sad commentary on the amount of food in one of the Union's "full course evening meals." --The Yale News...
...second feature this week is entitled "Life or the Party" with Gene Raymond, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick and Joe Ponner. Inconsequental to an extreme, the picture succeeds in being very funny at times despite the hapless efforts of Mr. Parkyakarkas to add to the gaityAn average news reel and an excellent March of Time comulete the bill