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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today can well be observed as the birthday of John Harvard, although the exact date is unknown. His christening took place on November 29, 1607, and the birthday can only be approximated as being near that date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT PRESIDES AT TERCENTENARY MEETING TONIGHT | 11/8/1935 | See Source »

...three Italian armies fronting Ethiopia on the North, South and East the first two have been well-publicized but Il Duce masked his Eastern Army in such reticence that last week even the name of its General was still unknown to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Positives | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Emphatically last week the Sultan had yet to be bought. With dusky guile his tribesmen pretended to welcome the Italian advance until the unknown General's column was well past Mount Mussa Ali. Then from all sides they struck. Two Italian mule caravans freighted with food and munitions were captured, according to bug-eyed native runners who reached Dessye. They said that the main Italian column, fighting in the classic hollow square formation Queen Victoria's troops used in the Sudan, managed to stand off the tribesmen with a loss of 200 native and white Italian troops. Dejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Positives | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...catalogue contains descriptions of 7,889 galaxies in the Horologium area, almost all of them hitherto unknown, and nearly all of them fainter than the fifteenth magnitude. It was compiled from a series of long exposure photographs taken with the Bruce telescope at the University's southern observatory in Bloomfontein, South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Book of Star Galaxies, Largest in Existence, Furnishes Excellent Evidence of Island Universes | 10/24/1935 | See Source »

Score Harriers e, M.D.C. 0. Time--unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Race Motorcycle Cop Over Fairways of Golf Course, Winner of Marathon Unknown | 10/22/1935 | See Source »

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