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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled. Permit me, mister, just a word with you. In the course of perhaps two hours winding of the horn, the player will have to pour nearly a glass of water out of its coils and crooks. This is not spit. Shame on you! The horn acts as a still. The breath of the performer (and your breath) is a watery vapor. Remember the mist it makes when blown on a cold window pane? The coils of the horn distill out most of this water. . . . All wind instrument players (except organists and operators of the concertina) suffer from this horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...TIME still goes to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...steps to the fore. Without a peer as a gridiron opportunist this fleet Indian back was a scoring threat every second he was playing against all opposition this fall. John McLaughry of Brown, as brutal a bucker as Ivy League football has over seen had an off-year but still gets the call over Rainwater, Chismadia, or Seymour

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, Donald Peddle, and Sheffield West, S | Title: Cornell Places Four Men on Crimson 1939 All-Ivy Eleven | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Eliot, who helped draft the Social Security Act and who is now New England director for the Wages and Hours Administration, stated that although the Law has been passed and is now being rigorously enforced, it still is not doing the good that it might because so many of the employers are fighting against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT, POLAND SPEAK FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

...course in Aeronautical Engineering, which was begun this year, is open to all University men except Freshmen and those who are unable to pass the physical examination. Of the 200 applicants for the course only 75 still remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First of Over 70 Students Take to Air As Government Flying Lessons Begin | 11/28/1939 | See Source »

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