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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expressing confidence in Ernie Sargeant, whom he ranked as the best lineman on the field Saturday, Harlow re-shifted Moses Hallett to tackle. For the past ten days Hallett has been alternating with Sargeant; he now returns as Tom Healey's substitute...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Harlow Changes Three Squad Posts; First Team Unaltered | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

...result of this reorganization." Beren pointed out, "more debates are being planned than at any time in the past, and participants will have more adequate opportunities to voice their opinions and bring back glory to the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-HOUSE DEBATING COMPLETELY CHANGED | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

...letter to a University official Fletcher Briggs announced that he was taking a "vacation" in Cambridge and would do no tutoring for the present. Briggs was formerly a Harvard instructor in German and has been tutoring privately for the past eleven years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutoring School Quits Business Under Pressure of University | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

...past ten years Earl Mosley has also been City Manager (salary for all his jobs: $7,500 a year) and he knew what he was talking about. Colorado Springs beamed as he read the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Colorado Consolation | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Mark Twain once took the trouble to dig out and proclaim at length (in Life on the Mississippi) some comparative figures on America's age. Without whooping it up as Mark did, Historians Commager & Nevins are equally concerned to demonstrate the long, rich past which Americans seldom realize. Collected in this book are about 1,130 pages of documents, from the Journal of Christopher Columbus to Charles Lindbergh's We, which make up a history told by the historical. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Tales | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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