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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unanimous consent for the present consideration of the resolution," said Norris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Light on Lobbying | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...following appraisal of life at Michigan was written for the Crimson by O. W. Burke, formerly an undergraduate at that institution and at present a student in this University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Average Michigan Undergraduate Stays at Home, But Not to Study--Fraternities Compete in Playing Host to Harvard | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...intercollegiate football contests owe a good part of their present position to the notice which the press and radio have brought them, there is no doubt that the singularly different development of minor sports has been possible only through the salutary neglect which has left them to struggle along on their own feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOT THE ONLY PEBBLE | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...University soccer team will present a new lineup when it opposes the Navy at Annapolis this afternoon in the first of its two games of the Southern trip. Victory in these two holiday clashes will mean that Harvard, for the first time in several years, will enter the Yale game a favorite. A decided scoring punch and a cohesive defense have been built up which augurs well for success today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG SOCCER ELEVEN ENCOUNTERS NAVY TODAY | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...Ginger Cat" is an outstanding example of a certain type of mystery and melodrama writing that is very popular at the present time. It ignores one of the principles of good melodrama--that the reader's attention should never be distracted from the main story and the main characters, unless for some point essential to the development of the story. Of the actual writing, the reader should be always unconscious. The English language should not be slaughtered to such a degree that it becomes irritating, nor should the style be toned up to such a degree that it becomes noticeable...

Author: By G. P., | Title: THE GINGER CAT. BY Christopher Reeve. William Morrow & Co. New York, 1929, $2.00, | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

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