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...lose, or draw, this marks Joe Forecast's swan-song. Never again will the Forecast pen disturb the virgin whiteness of paper. I pass on to bigger, better, and more lucrative fields. Whither matters not--sufficient to say that next year, and the years thereafter (unless Joe, Jr. suddenly turns intelligent) the CRIMSON readers must figure for themselves the outcome of the games...

Author: By Joe Forecast, | Title: FORECAST PREDICTS CRIMSON WIN, THEN HAILS FAREWELL | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...football player who has scored the most points this season is Kenneth Strong of New York University. The members of the Princeton team eat meals prepared by a small man, black as a raven, whose name is Swan. In the field house at Penn there is a notice on the bulletin board prescribing what Penn players must do each hour they are traveling to games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Young dogs are "pups," young chickens "chicks," young rabbits "bunnies," can you tell us what the young of swan are called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

TIME must decline hereafter to answer questions, such as this, which do not pertain to the news. When swans or cygnets become cygnificant (such as would be the death of the red-billed black swan in the garden of the Pena Palace at Cintra, Portugal) TIME will tell, will answer questions on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...problem and made reports in scientific journals. Professor Keyes' pronouncements always carry weight. Onetime (1924-26) director of research for the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., he is generally listed among the 175 leading chemists of the U. S. His assistant in the aluminum research was Dr. Sherlock Swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Aluminum Plating | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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