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Hulse led the Crimson attack with a trio of goals, with Curtis and Butt ringing up two apiece. Burton, Gray, and Cox tallied once each to complete the rout of the local schoolboys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN SEXTET WINS | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Traffic Circle" Compels Bellboys to Hike 13 Extra Miles in Three Years | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

Last week, in a record turn-out for a purely municipal election, Detroit demonstrated its preference for the city clerk over the onetime attorney general 261,957-to-154,048. That was no surprise. What confounded virtually all the political prophets was the complete rout of the C. I. O. candidates for seats on the nine-man city council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Defeat in Detroit | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

History and adventure have never been the same since Howard Pyle put his hand to them. Born in 1853 of old Delaware stock, he heard from his great-grandmother eyewitness tales of the rout of the Continental Army at Brandywine. When he grew up, Howard Pyle found one of his studios in an old mill near the Pyle ancestral farmhouse on Brandywine Stream. A broad-shouldered, benevolent six-footer, he made his Revolutionary soldiers, pirates, merry men, knights and men-at-arms so nutbrown, brawny and handsome, steeped their adventures in such romantic color, that Theodore Roosevelt lustily approved, frequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pyles & Wyeths | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Front No. 3. From the Guadarramas, scene of the great Italian rout of March, round Madrid and down to Toledo are the strongest, finest fortifications in the entire line, works of which any World War engineer might be proud. Once again last week Rightist troops were assembling for still another attack on Madrid, urged on by German staff officers with the knowledge that few of their own men would be engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: 1,000 Miles | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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