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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are some of the questions that will appear on a questionnaire to be circulated among all the upper-classmen tomorrow by the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Will Poll Extra-Curricular Trend Here | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

Tryouts for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate on April 29 will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Adams House upper Common Room. Those competing for positions on the team will be the 44 members of the Debating squad, in contrast to other years when they have been open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIANGULAR DEBATES TRYOUT HELD TONIGHT | 4/13/1938 | See Source »

...country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz (pop. 1,715), the capital. None of the others shelters more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIECHTENSTEIN: Nazi Pressure? | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Creation of Man, by Laszlo Szabo (real name), an arrangement of arcs and triangles dominated by an apocalyptic human eye in the upper left hand corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Faker Show | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...growers had nothing much to do. Combining sentiment with institutional advertising in good California fashion, 50 of them will start off on a 16-day pilgrimage promoted by the California Avocado Association, which carefully labels itself "a Cultural (non-marketing) Society." The pilgrims will go by train (price of upper berth: $205) to see Señor LeBlanc's parent avocado tree in Atlixco. There, on Easter, they will gather round the tree and listen to numerous complimentary speeches from U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels and Mexican dignitaries. They will present a gold medal to Señor LeBlanc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Sturdy Avocado | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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