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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guernica. Over the sea from Majorca came a squadron of black-winged Italian bombers. High over Barcelona they loosed enormous bombs on the crowded, industrial and residential sections of the city. In five minutes over 400 men. women & children were killed, many of them literally torn in fragments, and twice as many were wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: A Bomb for a Bomb | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...closest approach "Object Reinmuth" sped within 400,000 miles of Earth, which is less than twice the distance of the moon. Collision with one of these small planets or asteroids which lope around the solar system is a perennial theme with lurid fictionists, but mathematical chances against the occurrence are extremely high because of the great distances o space. If a body the size of ''Object Reinmuth" struck this globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Close Caller | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...latterly a portly, bewhiskered Philadelphia wit; in the Manufacturers and Bankers Club, in the Broad Street window of which he had become a permanent fixture, waving to all who passed. Short time before he had said: "When I see a pretty girl and don't look twice, it'll be time to call the Coroner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Paced by Austie Harding who tallied twice and passed to Ralph Pope for a third, the Harvard sextet took the Tiger's measure 3 to 2 at Hobey Baker rink in Princeton Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET DOWNS NASSAU 3-2 AS HARDING STARS | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...feature senior indoor polo league game of the evening, Harvard and Candlewood jockeyed for the lead, Harvard coming up from behind twice. For Harvard, Jack Lewis '40, No. 1 featured on the defense. Lewis tallied two goals, Dillingham three, and Stabler three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Polo Team Defeats Candlewood Horsemen 8-71/2 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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