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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many Britons were growing restive last week at what they called the surprising recent behavior of German officials in "cocking snooks" (thumbing noses) at His Majesty's Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Snooks Cocked | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

When Miss Loh got out of the hospital, the All China Students Union elected her to one of the five seats on its directorate, hailed her as "The Joan of Arc of China" and sent her to the recent World Youth Congress in Geneva. There, warned by typical Geneva pussyfooters that she must not attack Japan, she delivered a flaming speech in denunciation of a country which she left unnamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Jokes on Japan | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Monday nights, the Northwestern team sees a movie of its most recent game. On Tuesday nights, it sees a newsreel of its next opponent. Most spectacular ball carriers this year have been Steve Toth and Don Heap, It was Toth who made the touchdown that broke Minnesota's string of 21 victories three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 9). Heap is a junior who, between high school and college, spent three years earning enough money for his tuition and gaining enough weight to be sure of making the varsity football team the first year he tried for it. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...sprinkle the ideal with a little coarse sand of realism seems, in a very real sense, unforgivable, but past experience, confirmed in some measure by recent appointments, proves that it is possible to get this happy combination of proficiencies only in the isolated instance. Experience has shown that if the teacher-scholar fulfills his function ably in two out of three departments, he is a relatively happy choice; further, that today the result of this policy is to attract men who are capable research scholars and to a lesser degree, able graduate teachers, but not capable instructors of undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CRY FROM BELOW | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Lahr, along with Miss Mayfair, Reginald Gardiner, and Beatrice Lillie and the stars of the recent "The Show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mitzi Mayfair, Bert Lahr Disregard Student Poll, Support Parietal Ruling | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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