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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that the Kirkland Deacons are walking away from the rest of the field with 851 1/2 points to their credit already for the trophy and leaving only Lowell with 785 1/2 in any sort of a contending position, a large participation is expected for spring activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Renew Straus Cup Race as Spring Sports Start | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...regiment of conferences which squat obtrusively on every space of the college calendar from the beginning of the year until the end. There was plenty of room in the cyric three springs past when the H.Y.P conference cracked its shell, for it was a lone eagle of a sort. Since that time conferences without end have incubated; and nowadays collegians are dazed by a maze, which must provoke indifference if not revulsion. Model Leagues of Nations, Government Councils, Guardian Conferences, Harvard Congresses, etcetera ad infinitum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO CAMELOT WE GO | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...sort of honored ward of the Mexican Government, fat, fearless Diego Rivera still figures in many a hot political controversy. But whatever their politics, art lovers agree that Rivera is the foremost muralist of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rivera's Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...centre of its al there is the same roaring saloon with swinging doors and husky voiced entertainers hipping their ways around. It is, of course, a western with modern trimmings--a Cast of thousands, Technicolor, and saloon women's gowns by Adrian or somebody of the sort. But for old times' sake, you should like it just the same. You should thrill as Errol Flynn bravadoes to his inevitable victory, you should gnash your teeth when the bad man murders a respectable rancher in cold blood, and you should swell with patriotic pride as the covered wagons wind into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...women to pedal furiously on a stationary bicycle every day until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces) of gelatin, the women 45 grams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gelatin Pep | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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