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...overwhelming victory came as a surprise as Boston University had shown good forn in its previous games against Brown and Providence. O'Brien was the outstanding player of the Terrier aggregation, scoring four baskets by evasive dribbling and accurate shooting. The University team will play no more games until after Christmas, when it tackles M. I. T. at M. I. T. on January 8. The Clark University and Worcester P. L. follow in short order. HARVARD. B. U. Dorn, Vogel r.f. r.f. Jordan, Smith, Halliday Leekley, Slocum l.f. l.f. Cohen Green, Lane c. c. Cotter, Herbert Malick, Coombs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE WINS OPENING CONTEST FROM B. U. | 12/18/1926 | See Source »

...This is the eighth time that President Coolidge has raised the tariff; twice (on live bob white quail and paintbrush handles) he has lowered it. ¶General Humbert Nobile, pilot and builder of the dirigible Norge, was presented to President Coolidge by the Italian Ambassador. Titina, sophisticated fox terrier who had seen the North Pole, accompanied General Nobile, but scurried out of one of the White House windows before greeting the President. ¶Does President Coolidge eat raccoon meat? No. A full-grown male raccoon, sent from Nitta Yuma, Miss., with the hope that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...found Nobile in the navigator's cabin, excitedly reminding Riiser-Larsen that "I am captain of the ship." There had been feeling between the Norwegian and Italian members of the crew that arose from purely temperamental differences and even from the minor annoyance of Nobile's fox-terrier bitch, Titina, who often occupied one of the only two chairs in the gondola. There had been a scene at Nome when Nobile had insisted upon his right as an Italian officer to send reports of the flight to II Duce and the world in general. Amundsen had stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobile v. Ellsworth | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...disembarked from their steamer in ice-choked Kings Bay and set about unloading a cargo of hydrogen gas, food, and other materials. A mooring mast was standing, and a hangar going up, to receive the Norge, which was expected very shortly with her crew of 16 men and one terrier-mascot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

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