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Questionnaire, accompanied by letters, had been sent to 720 men. Despite the fact that replies have been slow in coming in and represent, so far, only about one-fourth of the commuters, it is believed that a fair cross-section of student opinion has already ben obtained. Although it is too early to make any definite conclusions, it seems that non-residence in Cambridge and exclusion from the Houses are effective bars to participation in sports and other extra-curricula activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE REPORTS ON PARTIAL TABULATION | 3/24/1932 | See Source »

...than Mitsui Gomel Kaisha but in all the world there is no other enterprise at once so vast and so diverse. Its agencies in foreign lands outnumber the embassies and consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No. 1 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...crime" of selling Japanese goods. Convicted shopkeepers who said they could not pay were kicked back into Anti-Japan Association jails, kept there on persuasive starvation rations. This queer kind of justice, flagrantly illegal in every way, was everywhere upheld by Chinese public opinion, the opinion of one-fourth of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Boycott, Bloodshed & Puppetry | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...singer; by Harold Fowler McCormick. chairman of the executive committee of International Harvester Co.; after a ten-minute hearing; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Mme Walska had lived in Chicago rarely since their marriage in 1922, not at all since 1929. Reported property settlement: more than $2,000,000, including one-fourth of Mr. McCormick's holdings in International Harvester Co. From the late Alexander Smith Cochran of Manhattan, her third husband, Mme Walska received $3,000,000 when he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Throughout the land last week school children were buying pencil-boxes and book-straps, getting fitted with new shoes. School was about to begin once more. This year, estimated the Federal Office of Education, the school and college population would be 31,000,000-more than one-fourth the total population of the U. S. The number of children in school, it said, increases steadily. The school year, averaging 172 days of work, is ten days longer than it was in 1920. Soon colleges will open for some 1,500,000 students. Some phenomena of 1930 school & college openings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to Books | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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