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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complicated psychological factors seems to cast their spell over most major sport competitions between the two institutions. Tonight, Harvard will be playing on Yale's home ice where Cambridge teams seem to have had a pre-disposition to win. Yale, despite its improved showing in the second game of the series, still has the apparent advantage of being the underdog and has come strategically closer to the tactics best calculated to upset the Crimson offensive...
...Wakambas had beaten an old woman to death. For this British justice demanded the death penalty. Their defense was childishly simple: The old woman was a witch, well known in the district. She had cast a spell over the senior wife of the Chief, a wife for whom he had paid many cows, and the expensive wife had sickened. Therefore the witch was dragged to the sick woman's hut and ordered to remove the spell...
...were rival magicians. To solve a girl's murder, Azrah bets $1,000 that he can make her speak from the beyond, name her slayer. The Great La Tour bets he can not. There follows a great deal of lowering and upping of stage lights. During one dark spell the Great La Tour is killed. During another, on the first night, Critic Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune disappeared. It was all right about the Great La Tour, however, because he turned out to have been a seducer of young girls...
...When one of them is released from half-life to total death by spell and incantation...
...page from Swift, a page from Samuel Butler, a page or two from Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells and Anatole France: put them all together and they spell HUXLEY. Author Huxley points out that his brave new world is strikingly similar to a world simultaneously envisioned by a slightly soberer scientist, Bertrand Russell. Delighted when critics discovered that he was a Thinker, he is still unwilling to give up tomfoolery. In Brave New World he mixes it so well with sober, cynical conclusions that it is hard to tell where one stops and the other begins...