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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best point about the band though is the easy style with which it swings, its excellent special arrangements, and best of all, the fine dance tempos that it plays. This is nothing short of rank plugging. As a matter of fact, the proceedings paragraphs should have "advt." written after them. But it's about time that something good at Harvard got a little publicity...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...feel that it is very unfortunate to imply that young men who have the convictions of the American Independence League as expressed in CRIMSON editorials are short-sighted or cowardly. Such use of epithets puts us almost back to the days when even sauerkraut must be called" liberty cabbage." Their program is true Americanism. If this is cowardice our forefathers were double cowards, because they took advantage of the embarrassment of the Hanoverlan dynasty with the French to withdraw from the British Empire in the wars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zimmerman Flays Pro-British Stand of McLaughlin, Praises Pacifists Bravery | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...short speeches over the public address system John M. Atherton '40, team manager, will introduce Bill Bingham, Director of the H.A.A.; Dick Harlow; Captain Torbie Macdonald; and Tack Hardwick; ardent alumnus and football enthusiast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rooters to Hold Football Rally This P.M. | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

...scale, or home consumption picks up, an inventory recession is inevitable. In this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Boomology | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...color of their patient's skin. If his normal rosy tinge changes to bluish, they quickly pump oxygen into his lungs. But it takes several minutes for the skin to show its telltale sign, and even the keenest observers cannot scent death by this crude method until a short time before the end. Last week Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital described a machine that notes the shadow of death long before death's hue is seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sawbones | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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