Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 900 of the Class of 1941 have now under gone their compulsory examination together with the fall sports teams. Coincident with and following the upperclass period, there will start the customaray survey of the winter sport personnel...
...second period Bellboy captain Ralph Murphy tossed a short, flat pass to left half Harold Pinansky, and the latter proceeded to run for a touchdown. The second Eliot fumble of the game had set the ball in position for scoring play...
...that it has reached the end of the athletes and Freshmen, the physical examination department of the Hygiene Building is ready to go to work on upperclassmen and graduate students. Beginning Monday and continuing over a two-week period, the doctors who were specially imported for the early fall rush, will remain in attendance to do this work...
Though Tom Moore's life was both disappointed and disappointing, it was lively and varied; if for that reason only, both of last week's biographies make interesting reading. A little carried away himself by the brilliant instability of his subject's period, Author Jones adopts the method of Guedalla and Strachey, devoting much space to contemporary modes and fashions, interspersing brisk epigrammatic surveys of political movements, quoting newspapers, hotel menus indiscriminately, in the effort to keep not only his subject but his background alive in the reader's mind. The method adds sparkle but leads...
...loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast-moving romance about an unpleasant, fast-moving period of U. S. history. Readers will like Author Thomason's numerous pen & ink illustrations; those who liked Gone With The Wind should like the story as well...