Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this day and age of football when the "passing" game is quite exacting, I see no reason why in your Oct. 23 issue, you should not be equally as exacting when you refer to me as the "late Big Bill Edwards. . . ." TIME has certainly fumbled the ball. Let me say that my physical condition is pretty good and that I am able to get around with my 282 pounds and not miss much that is going on and around the springboard at my Connecticut camp...
...that sort of thing, we find that Stan Brown and his band have been signed by Dunster House for their dance a week from tomorrow. This is something I'm glad to sec. because Stan besides having a very good band, has a Harvard band; and it's about time we got ourselves a little really decent jazz. Every big Midwestern school has at least one good band, and even Yale has creditable imitations of one. So with drum majorettes and stuff, it would seem as if the old place is taking life at an increasingly fast clip...
...though is the easy style with which it swings, its excellent special arrangements, and best of all, the fine dance tempos that it plays. This is nothing short of rank plugging. As a matter of fact, the proceedings paragraphs should have "advt." written after them. But it's about time that something good at Harvard got a little publicity...
...month ago Tommy began to enlarge his arranging staff, adding Sy Oliver and one other, making four full-time men working for him, the largest staff in the country. But the catch is that Sy Oliver formerly played trumpet for Jimmy Luncefor, and is an arranger in the best Kanas City powerhouse style. More than this, Oliver specializes in a very different Casa Loma type of technical arrangement that demands a well-kuit band...
...last year or so a great university has sent a widow the check for the last salary of a professor fired because he did not support the American involvement in the last European war. Most objectors, however, were broken at the wheel of the war hysteria of that time...