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In Kiel an irate German court sat in three shifts 24 hours a day last week trying 120 leatherfaced German seamen. With clocklike precision they were sentenced to two months in jail each. Their crime: tying up 41 German vessels in the harbor of Leningrad by a mighty mass strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Red Port | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

The Yale varsity, generally considered to be suffering from too many coaches, journeyed to Chicago, a record distance for Yale. There they played one of the week's biggest games against a Chicago team coached by grizzled, 69-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was Yale All-American end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Be that as it may, the most significant aspect of the omission of Latin concerns the cultural consequences. The gain in precision and style in writing English resulting from even an elementary classical training is too well recognized to need comment. Another result equally important but less tangible is the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIC TRANSIT | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

What Henry Adams found in Chartres was not only in a building of surpassing beauty or a monument to a great faith built by loving hands, but, more than that, he found a spirit, a spirit, of unity, of precision, of order. These were beliefs that dominated the Middle Ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/21/1931 | See Source »

Saturday's football game at West Point focused attention on the Army contest from many opposing points of view. An increasing number of Harvard men who in the past may have looked upon the Army meeting as a major event of the football season are beginning to see the fundamental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARMY GAME | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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