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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because it is easier to fire a field of winter grass in the spring than it is to plow the stubble under, and because "burning off" brings sweet young grass for cows to eat, many a U. S. husbandman is responsible for brush blazes that sometimes sweep into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spring Burnings | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Michael prefaced his remarks by soothing any Columbian feathers that might become ruffled later. Said he: ''Teachers College is by far the greatest center for the study of educational method and philosophy in both hemispheres . . . [its yearbooks] the best telescope through which the student can now sweep into his vision the educational changes of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sadler's Elite | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

From the general principles laid down by the central authorities it becomes evident that a Kulak would be a "poor farmer" in the United States or Germany. Over the breadth and sweep of Russia, conditions are variable. To accord with these varying conditions, a Kulak has been defined by law as a peasant who uses hired labor or machinery, who rents house or room, leases land or orchard, or engages in trade, speculation, "or any other source of non-productive income, including income as religious or secular employees of churches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW CZAR | 4/1/1930 | See Source »

...matches played on Saturday the Harvard squash teams made a clean sweep of the week-end, although only one raised its position in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association series. The Freshman team C players staged a major upset by their 5 to 0 defeat of the Union Boat Club players. The oarsmen, who stood in third place and needed but one game to put them in the runner up position, have now no chance for the title. At the Medical School in Boston the 1933 team D players were victorious 3 to 2, while the University team C was credited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN TEAM C SCORES MAJOR SQUASH UPSET | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...Yale trio is favored to sweep the Tournament because of its brilliant record. It has chalked up defeats over the foremost collegiate teams in the East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD POLOISTS TO CLASH WITH PRINCETON | 3/22/1930 | See Source »

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