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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Retired seven police horses from active service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: A. S. P. C. A. | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Eleven taxpayers had incomes of five million or more per year- seven in New York, one each in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin. By some twist the Michigan Fords, Henry and Edsel, dropped out of the topmost income bracket. Possible explanation: reduced income due to bringing out Model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Millionaires | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Deputies of the Sejm, Poland's Parliament, assembled nervously in Warsaw last week, for the first time since swashbuckling, eagle-eyebrowed Dictator Josef Pilsudski packed them off on a compulsory vacation seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pilsudski v. Daszynski | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters of their operatives, but are these men worse off than their ancestors who maintained life only at the pleasure of seven-year-locusts or the various vagaries of the weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellow Essays | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

Thus far this season, the soccer team has won five games, lost one, and tied one. Starting out with seven Sophomores in the lineup, the team won its first five games, defeating Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 3 to 0; the strong Syracuse aggregation, 1 to 0; Bridgewater Normal Institute, 7 to 2; Dartmouth, 3 to 0; and the renowned Northeastern team, 5 to 1. Two days later, however, Amherst visited Cambridge and decisively defeated the Crimson, 4 to 2; and Harvard's last game resulted in a tie with M. I. T., 1 to 1, on the Technology field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM GOES SOUTH WITH BRIGHT PROSPECTS | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

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