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...Ellis, former Exeter star and veteran Eli back who won the favor of the New Haven fans when he caught Tommy Longnecker's fateful, pass in the Dartmouth game and streaked 88 yards to a score, thus keeping Yale's spotless record over the Green unblemished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...Shinto priests went to the mountains, selected a grove of hinoki trees, a variety of cedar. The following spring lumbermen in spotless white jackets, chosen for their piety and good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Moving Day | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Called from Cricket | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Thus a Constitutional amendment would be required before Argentina could limit immigration as does the U. S. Instead of maintaining a dread, jail-like Ellis Island, the Government at Buenos Aires welcomes immigrants in a spotless hotel, transports them free to wherever they desire to settle, and both feeds'and lodges them at their destination for a period of ten days. Scarcely surprising, therefore, is the fact that Madrid contains fewer Spaniards than Buenos Aires and Rome fewer Italians. Recently the influx of Italians has been drastically cut down, not by any Argentine restriction, but by the refusal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...other universities he very probably has; but in Harvard the case is other wise. Strong, generous learned, and liberal as Alma Mater unquestionably is her greatest glory lies in the faultless folds of her classic garments; and the chief care of the Freshman should be to preserve the spotless reputation for spotless raiment that has so long distinguished her from somewhat dishevelled sisters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

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