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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of Rome's early history was shaped by the Sibyl's dictates, whose records eventually filled nine Sibylline Books. Tarquin the Proud (534-510 B. C.), last of Rome's legendary Kings, wanted to buy the Books but refused to pay the great sum the Sibyl demanded. She destroyed six of the sacred nine. When he paid the original price for the remaining three and took them to Rome, Romans no longer had to make a long journey to learn what they wanted to do. The Cumaean Sibyl and her grotto lapsed into a legend—until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sibylline Cellar | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...city budget . . . for 1933 I have asked . . . that the City Council appropriate $100,000 for the maintenance of the Zoological Garden. ... If this sum of money cannot be made available ... it will soon become absolutely necessary to dispose of the animals and close the gardens. . . . You should clearly understand that the closing of the gardens cannot be easily accomplished. On account of the depression in the animal market it now appears to be impossible to dispose of the animals . . . therefore we will be faced with the only alternative ... to destroy them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hungry Zoo | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Merola is no Toscanini but he is probably the world's nerviest, luckiest conductor. Some years ago he gave open-air opera at Stanford Stadium, lost his Italian backers a tidy sum. But at just the right time each evening a full moon rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco Memorial | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...saving. The library budged had to be out ten per cent. A saving of $19,000 was made by reducing the purchases of books and by leaving unfilled vacancies on the staff. A further economy of $16,000 was effected by shortening the when the Library is open. This sum could be cut in no other part of the Library budget without crippling its essential service to the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLOSING HOUR AT WIDENER | 10/13/1932 | See Source »

...Bingham's exceedingly frank and clear-out statement of the inner details of Harvard's athletic budget provides an almost staggering yardstick measurement of the place of football on the credit side of the ledger. Football this year is estimated in the budget as costing the Association the round sum of $330,991, a figure slightly larger than that of the Harvard College library for the same period. Of course not all of this money is spent on supplies and wages alone. Nearly two thirds of the football expenditure goes as guarantees to the visiting teams. Subtract the guarantees from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM ECONOMICS | 10/7/1932 | See Source »

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