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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncertain health, he hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops." At Moscow M. Tchitcherin would have smiled awry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: T. & T. | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...jongleurs of Notre Dame, having completed seven successful matinees this season, and hoping still to be the football champions of the U. S., once more demonstrated their ability to keep the ball in the air. Drake could not see how the trick was done. Score: Notre Dame, 21; Drake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...crying for compassion. Princess Turandot, icy white, on a Palace balcony, signals to the executioners to proceed. An unknown prince, thrilled by her beauty, is determined to win her or die by the selfsame enigmas. The second act: Ping, Pang and Pong, comic ministers, jabber of the seven thousand centuries of China's glorious past, of Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth of the stage, the bearded emperor high on his throne, mandarins in their gaudiest best, eight wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turandot | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...years of continuous publication the CRIMSON is departing from the time honored custom of holding only one Freshman competition of 11 weeks starting in the spring. The innovation takes the form of a 1930 competition for the News Department opening at 7 o'clock tonight which will last only seven weeks, ending just before the Mid-year period. At the same time amateur photographers among the members of the Sophomore, class interested in the wide range of picture taking opportunities offered by the Photographic Department of the CRIMSON will be given a chance to start an 11-week competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON OFFERS '30 FIRST CHANCE | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...before being invited to display their literary talents in writing news stories and interviews for the CRIMSON. This year it has been decided to hold two News competitions for first-year men to cut down on the duration of the candidate period, and to take advantage of the quiet seven weeks which comprises the lull between the Yale game and Midyear storms for the first of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON OFFERS '30 FIRST CHANCE | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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