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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this theory got a bucket of cold water thrown right in its face. In the New England Journal of Medicine, hard-headed Psychiatrists Robert Edward Fleming and Kenneth James Tillotson denied that there is any such thing as an "alcoholic personality." Anyone, they said, "can become an alcoholic if he drinks long enough and heavily enough...
Scoring once early in the game, the Elis made their second touchdown in the closing minutes of play when Smith intercepted a long pass thrown by Jitbug White and returned it for a touchdown...
Considerable consternation was thrown into the hearts of Crimson adherents when it was also rumored that some of the Eli men had followed in the steps of Adolf Hitler and have vowed not to change their clothing until victory is their...
...thirties. The show belongs to Jimmy Cagney, who is really in his medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney's wake and gives him all the acting support he could ask for. But it is an insult to all Harvard graduates, past, present...
Hobbing and Dale maintain that as a result of the Administration's present policy, "Teaching in fields of concentration, affecting about half of the undergraduates, will be severely injured.... The best teachers and scholars will be lost... The staffing of the Faculty will be thrown out of joint...