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With Andover underfoot, the Freshman track team Saturday vanquished the Exeter team 68 1/2 to 26 1/2, taking first in every event. Rolla Campbell broke the Exeter Cage record in the 600 yard run in 1:17.3. Bob Partlow continued to dominate both jumps winning the high-jump at 6 ft. and the broad-jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '41 Track Downs Exeter | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...functional art, "woven into the very warp and woof" of avenues and buildings. "Instead of a few hundred thousand people seeing the old masters isolated in one building," he proclaimed, "50,000,000 visitors will find art all around them-to the right, to the left and even underfoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fair Fight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...girls before going out to die. Chicago's municipal marriage license bureau set an all-time high on April 9, 1917, issuing 1,124 licenses. Last week saw that Wartime record tremble on Monday when 1,119 licenses were issued, tumble on Tuesday with 1,153, be trampled underfoot on Wednesday by a mob of 1,407 engaged couples who kept the overworked clerks on the job until 9 p. m. Next day another all-time Chicago marriage record was broken: not a marriage license was asked for all day. On the idlest previous day in the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Marriage Mills | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Plans are underfoot for a huge, combined House Dance on the Friday evening before the Yale game next fall, it was learned last night. Representatives of the seven House Committees met at Dunster House then to discuss the proposal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL HOUSES MAY COMBINE FOR YALE DANCE IN FALL | 5/28/1937 | See Source »

...dogs as Hamelin was with rats. Every small section had its band of ten to 25 mongrels-all sizes, shapes and colors-which woke to fighting fury when a dog from another section tried to trespass on its territory. They littered the narrow streets with their droppings, were eternally underfoot, made the night loud with their yapping. But it was part of the Turks' religion to be kind to animals, and the dogs had been there since Constantinople was Byzantium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Istanbul Dogs | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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