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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed his eyes and still saw a river, another river which looped almost directly beneath him as he lay at the rim of the valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices...
...Centauri, held rank as the No. 1 solar neighbor. Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand miles a day would get there in 60 million years...
...readers remember the pioneer farmers of fiction. For one novel of the calibre of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read...
...thousand undergraduates trooped to the polls, nine men were elected to the 1938-9 Student Council as a result of the balloting held Tuesday, the officers of the persent Student Council announced last night. Elections in both classes were very close...
...Five thousand volumes, including many rare examples of fine early printing Herbert Weir Smyth '78, for 28 years Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard, have been presented to the University by his family...