Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light but long workout constituted football practice yesterday afternoon for Bates' gridiron warriors as they speeded preparations to open Harvard's season this Saturday in Cambridge. No injuries were reported after the Bates opener last Saturday, and a full squad will descend upon Soldiers Field...
...start of last year's schedule sports scribes chose to minimize the loss of the mighty Clint Frank and predicted a better-than-average record for Ducky Pond's machine. The Elis went on to stagger through the most disastrous season in Yale annals, winning two out of eight games. Now the situation is reversed. With experts foretelling nothing but lean days for the Bulldog, there are few individuals in the vicinity of New Haven who give Yale a fifty-fifty chance of improving even on last year's performance...
Journey's End (by R. C. Sherriff; produced by Leonard Sillman). Broadway's 1939-40 season opened last week extremely late but extremely aptly: with a revival of one of the two most famous plays (the other: What Price Glory?) about World War I. But despite its timeliness, to most Broadway critics Journey's End seemed much less remarkable than when first produced here ten years ago. Contrasted with the millions now in arms all over Europe, a handful of British officers quaking in a 1918 dugout seemed inexpressive, minuscule...
...World War II boomed forward from its overture to its first act, there was again a small disturbance in the orchestra pit. In the provincial English beach-resort town of Hastings, Conductor Julius Harrison of the local Municipal Orchestra announced that he would ban Wagner from the coming season's programs. Said he: "Wagnerian music is the prototype of Nazi aggression. It is heavy and militant and reminds one of Hitler...
Samborski urged all men who wish to come out for football to report at Dillon Field House this afternoon for uniforms. The Dorm team will play several outside games during the season, probably with a prop school and with a Tech class team, as well as games with the House teams...