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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shantung Province is suffering from a famine brought on by drought (TIME, Feb. 6) which menaces the lives of ten million Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ferocious, Aerocious War | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...schedule-the brain battle between undergraduates of Harvard and Yale Universities. For three hours, one afternoon last week, a picked team of ten Yale seniors wrote answers to the regular examination paper which was given to all Harvard seniors specializing in English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard v. Yale | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...same time, in Cambridge, Mass., the team of ten Harvard seniors answered the same examination paper (in next year's tilt a Yale paper will be given to both teams). The Harvard men did their writing in a classroom along with 140 other students. The same rules applied, except that the Harvard team was not allowed to smoke. Seven members held scholarships; one, Richard T. Sherman of Algona, Iowa, had been editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson; another, Henry T. Dolan, suffering a fractured kneecap, took his examination in a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard v. Yale | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...America right, Alfred Loewenstein, wealthy Belgian capitalist recently arrived, bought a ten-passenger Fokker cabin plane last week for $55,000. Arriving in Philadelphia on its first hop, he jumped excitedly from the cockpit, ran so close to one of its three whirring motors that his derby was knocked sideways, sat down to think things over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Five Harvard men are placed among the first ten in the ranking of the squash racquets players of the Metropolitan Area released Saturday by the Metropolitan Squash Racquets Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE HARVARD MEN PLACE IN N. Y. C. SQUASH RANKING | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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