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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to rumor, however, the quarters of the victory and eagle variety, can not be identified by the absence of any date. All genuine 25-cent pieces printed since 1915 were poorly engraved so that the dates tend to rub off easily. This defect is to be remedied, it was learned, by the issuance of a new model of the coin in the near future by the United States treasury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES IN ON "SHOVING OF THE QUEER" | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

...ball at the Charmerace establishment in Paris, he finds that Charmerace suspects him of the same thing. Moreover, his likeliest spy, after climbing into the Charmerace bed without her clothes, not only makes friends with Charmerace but falls in love with him. This causes Lionel Barrymore to grunt, rub his chin with one hand, make his eyes pop. It does not prevent Arsene Lupin from helping himself to bonds, jewels and expensive pictures. Presently Lupin's signed depredations occur at the suburban chateau of one Gourney-Martin, where Charmerace also happens to be staying. After this he steals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reunion in Hollywood | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

ARABIA FELIX - Bertram Thomas - Scribner ($5). Last large geographical blind spot in world cartographers' eyes was the great desert Rub' al Khali, "empty quarter" of Arabia. After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shiftless Sands | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...practice. Captain A. J. Cumnock '91 originated a crude, brutal machine which was the first tackling dummy used at Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made the team doctor and it was he who introduced the custom of the players' retiring from the field between the halves for rub-downs and medical attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifty Years of Harvard-Yale Gridiron Contests Reviewed on Anniversary of Classic Battle | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

...practice. Captain A. J. Cumnock '91 originated a crude, brutal machine which was the first tackling dummy used at Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made the team doctor and it was he who introduced the custom of the players' retiring from the field between the halves for rub-downs and medical attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Harvard-Yale Game Really Rugby, With Fifteen on Side, No Rests, and Spherical Ball | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

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