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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swing music, was promptly nicknamed Terrible Tommy, or The Hoosier Hammer. As a freshman he got a D in English (he is studying for a radio career-probably sportcasting) but won the University trophy as the best allround athlete in intramural sports. Sophomore year he was tapped by Sphinx (junior honor society) and elected Pharaoh. Last week diverse sports enthusiasts named a baby and a racehorse after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Sphinx-Headed Author Gertrude Stein uttered: "It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. I always do." Best novel to lose yourself in, according to the Stein taste: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 23--Two representatives of Harvard University and three undergraduates will be special guests at the annual dinner of University of Pennsylvania's Sphinx Senior Society. Harvard is being honored according to the Society's custom of paying tribute to a sister University each year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn's Sphinx Society Will Honor Five Harvard Guests | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

...Stooge Cárdenas-and that was all people thought he was-to smash the Calles machine within a year, send his Boss flying, and in four years reorganize the Party with his own henchmen in key posts has been a hard-fought triumph. "The Sphinx" used to be the army nickname of General Cárdenas,' and with a grim, silent, unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plows Plus Rifles | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...photograph of the cast. The club gave its first stage production in 1845, a burlesque called "Bombastes Furioso," held in a member's room in Hollis Hall. Many Hasty Pudding show books are displayed, including the "Famous Fakirs" of 1908, its first modern musical comedy, and "The Sphinx," the only show staged professionally after its Harvard appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

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