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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nowhere, Mays' and Devens' juggernaut spurts made a Harvard touchdown possible. Then Douglas blocked another of Booth's kicks and Barry Wood slanted over a field goal. Once Booth nearly got away but Bill Ticknor pulled him down by the back of his sweater. Harvard 10, Yale 6. Unhappy sequel: Victor Harding Jr., of Hubbard Woods, Ill., Harvard end, complained of fierce stomach pains after a scrimmage in the third quarter. His spleen was ruptured, had to be removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...General Arnold took command of West Point at his own request. The story of his treachery is too well known to be repeated. An interesting sequel however tells of Confrere Andre's storage in a dungeon of the Fort these after his capture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIRRING HISTORY OF POINT RECALLED | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount of what she is now importing from other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jokester Jim | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Cock-Eyed World (Fox). Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson wrote this sequel to What Price Glory. Like most sequels written to order and for the trade, it retains the flavor but not the vitality of the first piece. Still in the Marines, Sergeant Quirt and Top-Sergeant Flagg get their women mixed up again in Russia, Brooklyn, Coney Island, the tropics. Their dialog, consisting mostly of aggressive variations of the phrases "Says You" and "Says me," is amazingly rough for cinema, outshocks What Price Glory in places. One of the men gets wounded, the other leads his troops to glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...AFTERMATH-The World Crisis- 1918-1928-Winston S. Churchill-Scrib- ner's ($5). The Sequel. The first volume of Mr. Churchill's The World Crisis was dedicated "To All Who Tried," the next "To All Who Endured"; this latest and last, "To All Who Hope." That is a strange title to give a pessimistic climax like this: "The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. . . ." Moreover, "it was not until the dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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