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Last week the American Association of University Professors met in St. Louis for the purpose, among others, of revising its list of "ineligible" universities " colleges. The institutions which spot this list are the black sheep of U. S. education, and the A. A. U. P. will not accept new members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blackest Sheep | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

In 36,000,000 years the moon will be close enough to send 65O-ft. tides surging over the seas four times a year, penning U. S. inhabitants between its eastern and western mountain ranges. When this cold corpse of a satellite has crept 50% closer, a menacing bulge will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunar Approach | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

A rowdy comedy is "Three Men on a Horse". Simple in structure, very Damon Runyon in execution, it has a contagious hilarity and nonsense which must bring all but the utterly high-brow to uproarious laughter. Erwin Trowbridge, henpecked author of verses for Mother's Day greeting cards has a...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1935 | See Source »

Just off the coastal juncture of Virginia and Maryland lies small, picturesque Chincoteague Island. Sportsmen know it as a good place to go for fishing and duck-shooting. And once a year, during its Volunteer Firemen's Carnival, Chincoteague stages the East's only wild horse roundup. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Chincoteague's Round-Up | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

Since the days of the Armistice the French have employed a consistently anti-German policy with all the suavity and relentless hatred of the best characters of Mr. Sax Rohmer's thrillers. In the Treaty of Versailles the forces of the Tri-color marched rough-shod over the prostrate enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAZI BABY | 3/8/1933 | See Source »

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