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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their recreation has been limited to the simple, individualized exercise of track and field. The stoic, hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train for running only at night. The long northern winters cause would-be runners to take up long-distance skiing for conditioning, a type of training which has produced many a tireless distance runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finn Stand Against Russia Is Typical Of Traditional Attitude Toward Sports | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Enno R. Hobbing '40 and William N. Dale '40, president and managing editor of the social science review, take the other side of the intramural debate and rap the Administration sharply for its "present retreating, retrenching course of action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guardian Runs Pro and Con Articles On Administration's Tenure Program | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Though A Sea Island Lady never in any direction exceeds what its audience can take, it rarely eases up short of that. Within those limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ladies'-Book | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Their program includes support of a popular war referendum amendment to the Constitution "to take the war-making power out of Congress and put it into the hands of the people," the statement said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.W.C. PLANS RALLY FOR ARMISTICE EVENING | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Floodlights had to be turned on for the final quarter of a hectic football battle in Tigertown last Friday as the Princeton Jayvees came from behind in a wild and wools battle to take the measure of the Crimson Junior Varsity, 15 t 13. A crowd of about 250 witnessed the contest on University field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER JAYVEES DEFEAT CRIMSON FRIDAY, 15-13 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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