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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skating faster and passing more accurately, the Stubbsmen came back to score six goals in the second period and ran the string out with four mere in the finale. High scorer for the Crimson was Austle Harding, third line center, who scored three goals and made one assist. Twice he circled the Tech net and sneaked the puck into the corner before the goalie could shift from the other side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM WINS 13-0 IN ONE-SIDED BATTLE WITH M.I.T. | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...Pacific Conference, California was undisputed champion with six victories and one tie (with Washington), assured of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. In the Western Conference (Big Ten), Minnesota was champion with five victories and no ties or defeats but, having been beaten twice by non-conference opponents (Nebraska and Notre Dame) its season's slate was far from clean. In the Big Six, Nebraska just nosed out Oklahoma for top ranking. Two other conference champions were crowned last week in notable games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football Finale | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...plans to spend about $47,000,000, part financed by Fair revenues, the rest by a $27,800,000 issue of 4% debentures which has been completely taken by the public. Domestic and foreign participants will ante enough more money to make the Fair fund total $125,000,000, twice the Paris Exposition's cost and by all odds the biggest sum ever spent on a Fair in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cloven Hoofs | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Postman Always Rings Twice James Mallahan Cain wrote a brief, brisk best-seller in which philosophic overtones could be dimly heard above the rattling melodrama of the plot. Last week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pulp Classic | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...business he has caught about 75,000 animals, which would mean more than 1,000 muskrat coats if he had sold them all for fur. Actually he sells many alive to other breeders, some as far away as Czechoslovakia. A pair of black muskrats used to bring him $50, twice as much as he gets now. Almost all the skinned muskrats are sold to markets in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sometimes the meat is retailed as "marsh rabbit," sometimes as terrapin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trapper | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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