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...uncommon are such deaths. Two years ago at a May Day celebration in Klausenburg, Rumania, six children were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hail Balls | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...CROSS YOUR FINGERS (Columbia)-Besides uncommon spirit, Ben Selvin's band which plays these has a good piano, a good male quartet for its vocal refrains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Collegians | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

Pope Pius XI told an audience of 200 priests: "It is not uncommon now to hear very young children call their fathers 'stupid'' and to hear adolescent youths describe their parents as 'encumbering bag-gage.' This breakdown of domestic discipline constitutes one of the most urgent problems of the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 17, 1930 | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...fact is really the basis of the White Slave traffic. Young women are promised and young women are paid for dancing, sums which would be "big money" in Europe, but in the Argentine they are so meagre that the dancer becomes the hostess and the hostess the common or uncommon daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: One Slave Per Year | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...freedom is allowed the Harvard authorities in the expenditure of this gift through the unusual provisions of the will, which made no stipulations whatsoever as to what use the money should be put: Wyeth not even expressing the wish that the bequest should be considered as a memorial. This uncommon feature has aroused considerable speculation in University circles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL NOT COMMENT ON PROBABLE USE OF WYETH BEQUEST | 1/10/1930 | See Source »

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