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...this year, M. I. T. has three decisive victories to its credit, with Nee leading the team in scoring. Lawson is also an accurate shooter, and these owe their scores as much to the team-work of the quintet as to individual ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET TO OPPOSE ENGINEERS TONIGHT | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...intercollegiate football contests owe a good part of their present position to the notice which the press and radio have brought them, there is no doubt that the singularly different development of minor sports has been possible only through the salutary neglect which has left them to struggle along on their own feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE ONLY PEBBLE | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest to the realm of a disciplined and central imagination. Even should it choose to disregard the perplexity of a bewildered public, the Dramatic Club would seem to owe to its members the opportunity to show that they are not really morons, even though they have acted the part for the last several productions. Situated with both cast and academic audience able and ready to grasp subtlety of characterization and of plot, it is to be hoped that this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hint to Dramatic Club | 10/31/1929 | See Source »

...want to probe into that. To simple peasant witnesses he addressed questions remarkably prolix and abstruse, double questions, contradictory questions. Even so the witnesses managed to testify that they had seen Sheik Taleb Maraka publicly inciting Arabs to massacre, shouting that the faithful could settle any debts they might owe to Jews by slaughtering their creditors. One witness who thus testified was Superintendent Cafferata of the local British Police. When the Arab prosecutor sought to question Mr. Cafferata only on irrelevant topics, Mr. Justices Corrie and Defreitas became incensed, ordered another Arab to prosecute for the Crown on the morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Sheiks & Strikes | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...library in two decades is far from easy, especially when it is dependent to a large extent on selecting it from the flood of contemporary material. To those men who have been connected with this work during the library's life both Harvard University and American business owe a deep debt of gratitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARY FACILITIES | 9/19/1929 | See Source »

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