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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also declining to take on the question of taxing University property, be suggested that there was little the City Council could do to change the financial relationship between Harvard and Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill Flanagan Wants "Clean" Campaign In Fight With Sullivan for City Council | 10/10/1939 | See Source »

...uniforms, himself appeared in the House of Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree to radio studios, lecture platforms and the pages of some 25 periodicals (from the American Girl to the Atlantic Monthly)-all crowned with a face (see cut) that would take some women to Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...take long for the magazine-reading public to hear about the young Greenwich Villager who let her hair flow to her shoulders when others chopped theirs off at the nape. Her unforgettable name, unconventional personality and well-educated way with words constituted a triple threat against critical judgment; and nothing that anybody could say for or against her work could help or hinder her being popularly acclaimed the champion U. S. poetess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Food for Light Thought | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Watson claims that if the display taken place during the day time, "We'll just be out of luck." In that case the next sky display will not take place until 1946 when the earth may hit the comet of which these meteors are only the tall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIREWORKS PROMISED TONIGHT IS METEORS BEHAVE PROPERLY | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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