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...like spinach! (Sincerely, it reads and looks swell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...must also remember to keep a closer watch on his Radcliffe girl. She thinks those uniforms are swell. Let there be no mutiny, young lady, lest Vag become the Wellington of your West Point Waterloo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/15/1938 | See Source »

...seriously," he added later, "this coaching staff at Harvard is swell; in fact, there is none better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Yale Coach at Harvard Thinks Harlow's Staff, Offense Unexcelled | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

...Women's teams outdraw men's teams as box-office attractions, not only in Hollywood but all over the country. Even Manhattan's famed Madison Square Garden succumbed to women's softball this summer to swell their coffers, put on a semiweekly program of double headers featuring their own Roverettes and visiting teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Softballers | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...years when the Davis Cup is held by the U. S., the coffers of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association swell some $50,000 from gate receipts of the Interzone Final and Challenge Round, always played in the country defending the Cup. This year the tennis association got out an extra coffer when Helen Wills Moody decided to try for a comeback in international tennis. A meeting between Helen Moody and Helen Jacobs in the U. S. championship would add at least $25,000 to the till. Thus the U. S. L. T. A. was very glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indemnification | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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