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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international tilt with the Japanese was originally scheduled for Wednesday but was postponed both then and yesterday because of the rainy spell which has descended upon this section of the country. MacHale will in all probability do the pitching today with Sheldon behind the bat. The Crimson mound star will then rest until the Yale series, which begins in New Haven next Tuesday. Whether or not he will pitch the first or second game of the series has not been decided...
...love-struck convicts and buried by an infatuated guard. She nimbly scaled the wall, let herself down the other side by a blanket rope. Waiting in an automobile to carry her away, prison officials believed, was one David Minton, a recently paroled prisoner who had fallen under her spell...
There is something peculiar and curious about the Harvard alumnus. The change from undergraduate to graduate life affects him singularly. As a student in college he was individualistic and conservative. When the spell of the four years at Cambridge has worn off he has become sentimental and chauvinistic. Something bordering on "collegiatism" has gripped him. The present undergraduate scorns rallies and jingoistic gatherings; he is apathetic toward any urging to one thing or another. The graduate is exhorted to come to this and that gathering. By means of posters, pamphlets, and journals, of the sort which would make...
...most interesting case. Infestation with flukes is an oriental disease rarely seen in the U. S. Doctors probed their text books. Internes peeked at the pallid patient. Messages went to Dr. Horace Wesley Stunkard of New York University, authority on those flat, leaflike worms called flukes. Reporters learned to spell accurately trematode, clonorchis. Ralph H. Thurber made fine human-interest copy. That he was a minister diseased for the Gospel's sake added poignancy...
...have a degree of foresight, judgment, and daring rarely rivalled in the financial history of this country. In his business relations he exhibited a hardness which was difficult to reconcile with the kindly consideration which he always displayed toward his personal friends. Over them he exercised an almost magical spell, and there were few who knew him well who did not love him. His manner in private life was smoothly, charming, and his nature had a strain of sentimentality which seemed utterly foreign to the stern manner of the great business...