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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the opening baseball game less than a week away, Coach Fred Mitchell has decided on a tentative batting order which will probably remain intact for the Virginia game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL MEN PREPARE FOR OPENING CONTEST | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...choices--four each for the man in History and Government, for the one in History and Economics, and for the one in Government and Economics. Government Regulation of Industry is the most popular; International Relations and American Constitutional History are next. In theory their scope must be extensive in order to allow a student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROUND PEG AND SQUARE HOLE | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

...Eighth Wife (Paramount) is capricious proof that impish, cheroot-chewing Ernst Lubitsch is as deft a director as ever. Foil for most of Director Lubitsch's fun-making is gawky, good-natured Gary Cooper, a wealthy, clean-shaven Bluebeard loose on the Riviera after seven short-order U. S. marriages. Believing that "Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready for surrender, Gary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...Russia, where physicians developed the art of preserving the blood of accident victims in order to build up a reserve or "blood bank" for transfusions,*eye specialists who pioneered in the art of transplanting new corneas to the eyes of the blind have recently established "cornea banks," by removing the corneas of dead people for use in transplanting operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dead Men's Eyes | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...last month's 20, four stood out as best bets. In order of merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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