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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tiger eleven which Coach Roper will send on the field for the opening whistle tomorrow is still very much of an unknown quantity. According to the usual progress of things in Princeton the team did not show much in its early games. Against Swarthmore last Saturday, however, the Orange and Black gave a hint of its real power. And with Slagle and Williams available tomorrow the Tigers will be a still diaerent proposition to stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Light Practice the Rule in Final Preparation for Tiger Encounter | 11/5/1926 | See Source »

...pink rosebud, sent by President Coolidge by special messenger, was pinned to the coat of Detective Sergeant Arthur B. Scrivener as he was lowered into his grave at Winchester, Va. Sergeant Scrivener was shot by an unknown assassin in Washington a fortnight ago, on the day before he was to have been married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White Plouse Week: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

Acetylene gas in a sealed tube was reduced to a surprisingly large quantity of yellow powder, resembling varnish, which resisted all chemical reagents and a heat of 4000°. The powder was a substance utterly unknown to chemists. Precipitated by the ray upon an aluminum disc, the powder became an enamel which could not be removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cathode Rays | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

Showing steady improvement and flashes of real power, the University booters have defeated Wesleyan, tied Springfield and Dartmouth, and lost to a very strong Amherst outfit. The Purple squad is an unknown quantity, but Coach White of the University team expects a victory, despite the loss of Parrott, regular right halfback, who is laid low with an attack of tonsilitis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOTERS SET FOR WILLIAMS CLASH | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

Among Dr. Lowe's published works are "The Beneventan Script" and "The Bobbio Missal," commentaries on some notable ancient classics. He has also contributed historical, classical and theological reviews to contemporary periodicals. In 1922 Dr. Lowe discovered and published an unknown 6th Century fragment of Pliny's letter a find of considerable historic and literary value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD SAVANT TO LECTURE ON MODERN FORGERY AT FOGG | 10/29/1926 | See Source »

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