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Today the 1938 Harvard Varsity football team begins its third week of practice, and starting Monday, the morning sessions will be discontinued. Next week intensive work against the Brown plays will commence, for the season opener with the none too tame Bruin bear is hardly over a week away...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Football Team Starts Third Week of Practice on Soldiers Field | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...cross between tame & wild mice, they were supposed to be more fearful, less amenable to training, than either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hybrid Game | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Guinea pigs and dogs vary greatly from one individual to another. Monkeys could not be tested because they kept peering curiously over the cylinder's top. Wild rabbits see better than tame rabbits; normally pigmented creatures see better than albinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animal Vision | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...McGoverns, finding Peiping too tame, frequented the fighting front. In one expedition they made with six newspaper correspondents, the five men and three women spent a sleepless night in one bed while dogs devouring Chinese corpses howled outside their hut. When he returned to Evanston, Bill McGovern predicted Japan would conquer and control all China within two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Traveling Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...just been to a party. I didn't have much to drink, so along about two-thirty I get bored, and I go look for my roommate, and I say to him, "Charley," I say, "1ct's scram. Lulie ain't here and things're too damned tame." But my roommate, Charley's his name, he says, "Oh, go dance with the hostess then." Only he says it sort of ominous-like. So I ask one of these flunkeys with a white flower in his button-hole which is the hostess. And he points over to a girl that looks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

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