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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general, the Yardlings remain an unknown quantity, not having yet encountered a team strong enough to press them hard. Since the start of the season, they have improved steadily from what appeared to be a very poor outfit to one which has a good present record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1941 PUCKSTERS FACE POWERFUL EXETER SIX | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...prominent retired Yard cop last night expressed his disgust with the whole affair, especially the neophyte, and said there was never any cat like good old Sarah, whereabouts unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APTED SWAMPED WITH CALLS AS PUBLIC CLAMORS FOR CAT | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

After many inquiries, and a search during two summers in the most likely museums of Europe, the man still remains unknown. But the work proves to be of the Flemish or Dutch school of the middle of the seventeenth century. This was a time when Flemish sculptors were in demand all over Europe from Italy to Scandinavia. In their vitality, realism and skill in execution, they were peculiarly fitted to express the temper of that epoch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew at Tokyo was then ordered to obtain an expression of regret from Japanese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kensuke Horinouchi. This Washington officially accepted as "satisfactory," closed the case. Whether the Chinese woman identified any rapists, what happened to her or them, remained unknown to the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Face | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...revolt against her father's unpracticality, she set herself to make money. She got her money and her popular success but none of the intellectual following she deserved and needed. At 56 her nerves and health collapsed. Shut away in a darkened house in Roxbury, her acute illness unknown to the world, she died two days after her father, who wanted none of the things she broke her heart trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alcotts | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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