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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scouting the Big Green in its games so far. The long forwards which were featured worked with surprising regularity at first; and though an improvement was noticed as the regulars became used to the plays, a great deal yet remains to be done on the aerial defense. To this task Coach Horween will devote the remainder of the week, all contact work being put off until next week at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG GREEN FORMATIONS PUT ON BY INELIGIBLES | 10/25/1928 | See Source »

...prepared for that office by eight years of achievement as Chief Executive of a great state, where he has mastered the most difficult task which confronts the President, namely, to be able to convince legislators and the people of the wisdom of his plans. Despite a hostile legislature he has reorganized the governmental departments and secured many needed laws, a record which forecasts success in promoting and obtaining desirable legislation in Congress. He has selected judges and other high officers in New York for their ability and experience without regard to any political influences, and his choice has invariably received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forty Harvard Professors Announce Support of Alfred E. Smith--Reasons for Endorsement of Governor are Given | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

...WOMAN finds paddling own canoe dreary task, seeks manly pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lonely Hearts | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...been given to a thorough player. The sets by Yellenti include one of a scene in No Man's Land which must give an authentic impression of that hell to one who has never been there. Upon the square shoulders of George Jessel has been placed the task of carrying off the play's heavier moments-a task to which he is more than equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...present volumes are concerned with restricting the business of the Supreme Court they do not propose to restrict its jurisdiction, but rather the amount of its work, so that the Court may be increasingly powerful. Hughes emphasizes the Court's deliberate determination to confine itself to its judicial task (maintaining of course its authority as interpreter of the Constitution); Frankfurter and Landis, on the other hand, demonstrate the Supreme Justices' increasing importance as statesmen and economists. Of the two volumes, the former Justice's is the more readable, packed as it is with lucid case illustration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Power to Them | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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