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...H.Y.P.D. meet, as it is called, is played round-robin fashion. With four men on each of four challenging groups, the individual players contest against each other until all colleges have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWERFUL CHESS TEAM FACES INTERCOLLEGIATE MATCHES | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...general manufacturers' sales tax such as now proposed by the President was rejected by the House decisively last spring, and blocked by a Senate round-robin. A $6 per bbl. tax on real beer, as advanced by the Wets for the present session, and as ignored by the President in his message, would produce approximately as much budget-balancing revenue as the loudly hated general sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget: 1934 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

MILNE (A.A.) The Christopher Robin Story Books. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LARGE VARIETY TO SUIT ALL TASTES | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...American Field Hockey team named last week after a three-day round-robin tournament of the best players in the U. S. at Greenwich. Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Field Hockey | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: On Kill Devil Hill | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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