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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death from the skies, and what is much worse than death-mutilation and disorgan-zation generally. As you can imagine, the advertising business has caught it where the chicken caught the axe. Many of our young men were called up; and we have been engaged in the distressing task of reducing our staff, as well as making drastic reductions in our incomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words of the Great Debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Debate's End | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Like its predecessors, the 1943 group has before it the task of managing all social activities in the Union until a new Freshman class takes over next fall. These activities include dances, amateur nights, photographic contests, talks by men outside the University, talks on fields of concentration by Faculty members, and free reviews before examinations given by Faculty members who teach Freshman courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninth Union Committee Meets Today to Map Plans for Year | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

Harvard has long had pride in its achievement. Primarily the college is devoted to the task of educating young men in preparation for life, not for a professional career with the Chicago Bears...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...task of checking the traditional Indian hilarity is left in the hands of police veterans; but the task of checking the Big Green gridiron forces is placed on a very inexperienced Harlow Varsity, most of whom have never been called upon to cope with the Dartmouth horde...

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Crimson Squad Set to Meet Fierce Indian Onslaught; Dinner Heralds Forty-Sixth Meeting of Two Teams | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

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