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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon the Freshman swimming team will face Yale at the Indoor Athletic Building in its final meet of the season. The 1935 natators have only been defeated twice during the winter, by the Brown and Dartmouth swimmers. They have defeated the Technology Freshmen, Dean Academy, Andover, Worcester Academy, finally overwhelming Exeter 47-15 on Saturday...
...fighting and bombing sea plane ever begun in Great Britain, a monster weapon of destruction with a cruising range of 1,300 mi. "This economy," said a spokesman sadly, "is a distinct blow to the Empire's progress. Had she proved successful, we planned to build another ship almost twice as large and correspondingly more powerful." Vickers, Ltd. will some day build a plane with which New York can be bombed from London or vice versa, for they sell to any good customer...
...Less than one-third of the members of the House of Lords own almost one-tenth of all the land in England, Scotland and Wales, stated The Labor Magazine last week. Members of the House of Lords also hold over twice as many company directorships as Members of the House of Commons. The mythical "average peer" holds if directorships, is one-half a Board Chairman...
...announced Sir John's peace proposal meant little to the Chinese and Japanese in the line. Twice in 24 hours Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...meteorite discovered by Admiral Peary on his North Pole Expedition in 1909 is of the metallic type, composed of 95 per cent iron and a small amount of nickel. The Tent. as it is called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object that caused the huge pit known as Meteor Crater in Arizona they have not been successful...