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...this 32nd meeting of the two teams, Princeton must be conceded the rile of favorite over Harvard. If the Crimson is to win, it must rely on those upsets which have made big three football games so unpredictable in the past. For the Tiger gridders feel that tomorrow is the day to prove that Princeton's strength is based on playing form as well as on paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Team Faces Game Brimming with Confidence | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

...president is Lenox Rile Lohr, whose 44 years have been devote more to war and engineering than to radio A Major in the AEF, he was cited for meritorious service in action, afterward served as executive secretary of the Society of American Military Engineers. He is best known as general manager of Chicago's Century of Progress fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fair Man Up | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...instructor, but as a polite means of expressing curiosity that the chaste-looking young man should care so much for smutty details. The average undergraduate as not easily duped; chalk-throwing, stalking from side to side, original arm-motions, and other attempts at exalting the Unusual Personality merely rile him or inject utter despair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIPENEGS IS ALL | 10/5/1935 | See Source »

...sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Antioch Heroine | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...more, spent that the same way, then $250,000 that brought back his losses and put him way ahead. "I'm strong for honest ballyhoo, but you can't treat them all alike. Don't let them lose you and don't let them rile you. I know-I was a full-fledged long-pants travelling salesman when I was thirteen." A few years ago he bought a summer house to spend the winter in at Pasadena but got bored there, heard Santa Catalina Island was for sale and bought the whole place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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