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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary nova is a star which flares up suddenly, usually increasing its brightness by several thousand times in a few days; then it fades, in a month or two, to about half its maximum brightness, passing through several different physical stages, as revealed by its spectrum...
...Already a petition is going the rounds in New England, which will carry signatures of seventy-five to one hundred thousand people demanding that the TIME Magazine be kept off every newspaper stand in this section...
...Outing Club, however, transferred its activities to an "outdoor evening" on Hilton Field which was attended by more than a thousand people, with skating and skiing on the program...
...spectacular touch was added to yesterday's fun-making when one thousand students donned skis and acted as extras in a mass skiing scene which was filmed by Hollywood cameramen as a background for a movie about the carnival which Walter Wanger (Dartmouth '11) is making. The scenario was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bud Schulburg, both graduates...
...Sundays, they may go home or go to town to blow what's left of their $5 to $8 monthly spending money. CCCers over the past five years have contracted venereal disease at the rate of 18.3 per 1,000. Last year the rate dropped to 12.9 per thousand, as compared with the Army's 87 per 1,000 in the World War, 140 in the Spanish American War, 90 in the Civil...