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...second faster than Scott, it is important to remember that he will be in a strange pool, and that Scott has been reported to have brought his time down to 24 seconds. However, the Lion flash is a formidable factor under any conditions. As a schoolboy he was a champion of the New York City school teams, and has had an enviable record since he has joined the ranks of collegiate swimmers. Last year his was the fastest time for the fifty turned in in any dual meet. Although he finished third to Thompson of Navy and Spence of Rutgers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/10/1934 | See Source »

...Ulysses"? Every schoolboy knows the story of the Odyssey, epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ulysses Lands | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...season, the Freshman hockey outfit will engage the Noble & Greenough stickmen at Dedham at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. The 1937 aggregation has shown considerable power this year, having downed last Wednesday, a strong Belmont Hill team by the impressive score of 8-1. It boasts such schoolboy stars of last year as George S. Ford and Thomas H. Bilodeau, Jr., both of whom have had, much experience in the rink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Hockey Team Will Engage Noble & Greenough | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

...prepared at Belmont High School and was captain of the Belmont hockey team and the outstanding player on the all star interscholastic hockey team of last year. He also made his numerals in Freshman football. Ford was considered by the newspaper sports writers last winter to be the best schoolboy stickman they had ever seen and it is rumored that he was offered a position by the Bruin's scouts...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Every Japanese schoolboy worth his patriotic salt dreams nowadays of "the big war." It may be against Russia (see p. 14 ), or against the U. S., but the Sublime Emperor must triumph, the white barbarians must be brought under enlightened rule and the Japanese schoolboy must die a glorious death. To help him dream such dreams is the mission of dozens of retired Japanese officers who pepper the Empire with brightly printed pamphlets such as Dream of War Between the United States and Japan by fire-eating Lieut. Commander Kyosuke Fukunaga of the Imperial Navy, retired. Last week horrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treasonable Dreams | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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