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Deputy Léon Blum, leader of the Socialist Party whose votes had been vital in keeping the Paul-Boncour Cabinet in power, attacked Papa Chéron thus: "In a crisis like this all estimates need to be modified from one minute to the next. . . . The pursuit of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Guillotine Dawn No. 2 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Of course, when a man is out only "pour le sport" he turns House and Intramural athletics where there are no training rules and for which he can come out whenever he pleases. If however, he has gone through the long and often rigorous training and practice required in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN NOT OF LETTERS | 11/25/1932 | See Source »

There arises a suspicion that the National Council of English Teachers is avoiding a difficult task when it reasons: "The populace makes mistakes in English; the populace is good; therefore mistakes are good." The American version of the English tongue is fast losing all the pleasant qualities that make the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE KING'S ENGLISH | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

Mr. William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics, has had two years in which to observe the House Plan and to study the intimation inherent in the project, namely that intramural would take the place of intercollegiate sports. At a dinner of the Harvard Club in New York, l.e. has declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL VS. INTERCOLLEGIATE | 10/21/1932 | See Source »

His earnings were $332,250, second to Sun Beau's all-time record of $356.044. His disposition was eccentric but calm. He liked to roll in sand every day, had a special sand pile to do it in. At the post or when traveling, he was intelligently placid. A great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wink of the Sky | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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