Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second of two new nationwide college magazines appeared on Cambridge newstands over the weekend. The newest publication is entitled "College Years," of which the editor is Richard W. Weissman '38, and the Harvard editorial associate Malcolm E. Jenna '40. Articles on Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, and several girls' colleges are interspersed with features about the youth movements and general phases of collegiate-ism. Grover Whalen, Aubrey Williams, and Brown president Henry Wriston are the leading authors...
...captain--and he is "a wonderful captain," in Jaako's estimation--is a Brayton, and in Harvard running of recent years there is no better name. Last year there was Sherman, with his 50 second quarters, and Dick and his good half-miles. Roswell is the last of the line, and Jaako says he is typical of his family, "for they're all great fightters and great workers, and all have built themselves into good runners...
...Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...
...manufacturer,* approved construction of a $10,000,000 factory near Pearisburg, Va. where it too will produce a new synthetic silk fibre. This unnamed yarn, said company officials, can be used for various textile products, does not correspond with Fibre 66. But the trade saw in the announcement a second sign that the Japanese silkworm soon will spin no more for U. S. hosiery makers...
Although the second half of the novel pictures big-time corruption in Paris, complete with blackmailers, international financiers and gamblers, it is less convincing than the early chapters laid in a little town near Marseille. There the mayor's 16-year-old son is having an affair with the wife of the tax collector, as is the local doctor; the dealer in funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local...