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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some unusual combinations were the results. Chace's boat seems to pack most of the power, but whether or not it will be edged out by some of the other combinations with more sprinting ability is a difficult question. The lineups follow: reading from coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST SQUAD STROKES PICK SIX BOAT LOADS | 10/30/1937 | See Source »

...human mind functions and to what extent its powers may be and are extended. The story of the Duke experiments is in itself, even without considering its significance, an exciting one. With his colleagues, Professor Rhine set about testing the mind of the ordinary man. With a pack of specially prepared cards, they tried to ascertain whether the mind could display powers which could not be attributed to the functions of the known five senses...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: NEW FRONTIERS OF THE MIND, by J. R. Rhine, New York, Farrar and Rinehari, 274 pages. Price $2.50. | 10/30/1937 | See Source »

...respect of the great mass of law-abiding citizens, and the rising generation of young people to whom they wish to preach Americanism, it is time that they cleaned house among their members, demonstrated the principles of good citizenship at their annual conventions, and behaved less like a pack of cheap, booze-fighting roughnecks at their annual meetings. More than that, if they cannot and will not obey the laws of the country, and of common decency, how long are we going to let the regular law enforcement agencies sit back and condone their bawdy behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally U. A. L. announced that its plane had been sighted, smashed near a saddle of Chalk Mountain in the bleak Uinta Range. When searchers next day reached it by pack horse and foot, they found 16 passengers, two pilots and a stewardess dead in the snow-covered wreckage-worst airplane accident in U. S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 1937's Fifth | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...authority on administrative law, Pound was one of the severest critics of President Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court. He has consistently expressed resentment of what he terms the attempts of the Administration's attack on laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POUND NAMED CHAIRMAN OF AMERICAN BAR GROUP | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

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