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...fifteenth victory for the Yearling nine, out of seventeen starts, and vindicates them for their loss to Lawrence Academy earlier in the season. Huntington recently had turned back the Academy boys and were rated as possible favorites in yesterday's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 NINE LAMBASTES SCHOOLBOY TEAM, 25-6 | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

...Seventeen undergraduates leave early this morning for Princeton to join in the five round-table discussions at the fourth annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on Public Affairs, which begins this noon with a luncheon address by President Dodds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Send Twenty - Seven to HYP Conference | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...trite and dull, for the plot concerns merely the tragic love of a marries man (Mr. Boyer) and a tempestuous, delicate, passionate femme du monde (Michele Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except in certain poses, she is nevertheless very appealing, and although her character is at once vain, cruel, tender, and generous, she succeeds in making it credible. If Charles Boyer is overshadowed, it is because the script was so constructed, not because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...Seventeen pugilists pounded their way through the preliminary round of the University boxing tournament yesterday in the Indoor Athletic Building before an enthusiastic throng...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Boxers Battle Through First Round of Tournament | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

Oakland to Stead: Increase it till you get seventeen hundred. . . . Put your props to cruise at seventeen hundred and then increase the pressure with your throttle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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