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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago has no War memorial. Planning one, the city offered a $20,000 prize for a design. Last week, Rotarians were startled to read in their monthly magazine The Rotarian, some suggestions by Chicago War Hero Harold R. ("Private") Peat, "winner of more than one medal for distinguished service." Neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Maniac Memorial | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Blindness Defined. Fixing on a definition of blindness was a difficulty. The U. S. definition is "inability to see well enough to read even with the aid of glasses," or for illiterates "inability to distinguish forms and objects with sufficient distinctness." The Society prefers the British legal description: "too blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prevention of Blindness | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Laughter | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

The exuberance displayed by Harvard supporters at the victory over Yale was due perhaps not so much to the fact that the traditional rival was beaten but that the Harvard team had fulfilled earlier predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLLOWING THE TEAM | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

It is of initial importance that we should obtain a clear idea of what the method of amateur coaching employed here at Cambridge involves in actual practice. In the first place the coaching system is by no means uniform throughout the various sports; nor in fact is it even entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Student Finds System of Amateur Coaching Falls Far Short of Full Perfection | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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