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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year interval between 1924 and 1933 was not to be immediately repeated, and whether last year's low ebb was but bed rock for another long series of victories over the Blues is highly doubtful. For this fall Coach Jaakko Mikkola is faced with the dull prospect of preparing a now starless team for the combined Harvard-Yale-Princeton run November 5 at Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...opposition, toppled Winston Guest's hard-hitting Templeton team in the semifinals. Undaunted, Greentree in the other semi-final disposed of Argentina's San José team, who have been playing on Long Island all summer. So, last week, the U. S. Open faced the unique prospect of an all-Whitney final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whitney Final | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...more experienced is the "Senior Companion." A Mormon salestalk emphasizes the practicality of Mormonism, its orthodox belief in God and Jesus Christ, its healthiness with its teachings against alcohol, tobacco, tea & coffee, "refined foods." Once convinced by a missionary that "silly tales" about Mormons have been "fully disproved," a prospect is likely to be impressed by Mormon statistics-literacy among saints in the U. S. 99.7%, births 30 per 1,000 as compared with 22 per 1,000 in 25 non-Mormon nations, a death rate of 7.5 compared with the international average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormons, Money, Missions | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...chromosome, it is a girl. Thus Professor Crew reasoned the shorter life expectancy of the male seems to be carried on a gene or genes in the y-chromosome. By delicate manipulations, geneticists have had some success in separating male and female elements in mammalian sperm, opening the prospect of sex control in human reproduction-provided the parents will submit to artificial insemination by sperm from which one element or the other has been removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nottingham Lace | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...income in years. Industrial and agricultural bank loans attained the highest figure in five years ($620,000,000), while airconditioning equipment production, cigaret sales and electric power output were at all-time peaks. Moreover, retail sales were zooming happily. Payrolls were still fattening. In view of such indices the prospect for fall business looked much like an oft-batted tennis ball which when dropped still has plenty of bounce, but not quite so much as human hearts have hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Old Tennis Ball | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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