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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Relying on the strength of its pitching staff to baffle the Harvard sluggers, who are batting well over .350, the Syracuse baseball team will invade the Soldiers Field diamond this afternoon. The game will be called for 3 o'clock. The Orange aggregation is credited with two victories in as many starts thus far this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HITTERS ENGAGE SYRACUSE | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

...fact that a boy masquerading as a girl can be counted on for a goodly number of laughs has always insured the success of Hasty Pudding plays to their audiences. In the last two or three seasons this staff was leaned upon rather heavily, and although playing to full houses, the Pudding shows were rather weak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

...Nationalist Foreign Minister Hwang Fu. Therein the U. S. explicitly declares that the firing upon Nanking by the U. S. war vessels Noa and Preston "was in fact a protective barrage, strictly confined to the immediate neighborhood of the house in which the American Consul and his family and staff, together with many others, had been driven to seek refuge from the assaults of an unrestrained soldiery; and not only did it provide the only conceivable means by which the lives of this party were saved from the danger that immediately threatened them, but it also made possible the evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Triumphal Return | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...Last week were reported the Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1927 profits-$20,142,161. President of the company is William G. Stuber, whom Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky has just made a colonel on his official staff. Will Rogers, critic of U. S. mores, is a colonel on the same staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Other contributors to the pamphlet, which was edited by President Langbourne M. Williams of the Southern Churchman Publishing Co., were Sergeant Giles B. Cook of Matthews Courthouse, Va., only surviving member of General Lee's staff, and G. W. B. Hale of Rocky Mount, Va. They indicted Lincoln on many a charge, including the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Tyler vs. Lincoln | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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