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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upper half of the draw T. E. Jansen '26 and P. M. Lenhart '27, numbers five and three respectively on the University team encountered no serious opposition in entering the third bracket and will probably meet before the final round. The second upset of the play to date was the defeat of L. H. Roots '26, a member of the second University team, by Horace Bowker '27 in a close match. P. R. Pease '26, number two player on the second University squad and R. L. Debevoise '29, first man on the Freshman team advanced to the third round with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOL BEATS DEBEVOISE IN CLASS A TOURNEY | 1/15/1926 | See Source »

...animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although Bishop Brent was valiantly extolling the League of Na- tions in the nearby Amphitheatre, I read that copy of TIME from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand one (there were no advertisements then**). After which, I "took my pen in hand" and sent in my subscription. Since then, I have brought it to the attention of my club women and other friends, many of whom are now subscribers. Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1926 | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Second team football letter awards will be made to 25 players it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Athletic Association. The players who will receive their insignia represent about equally the three upper classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 BLACKSHIRTS HONORED | 12/18/1925 | See Source »

...ocean liner rounded Sandy Hook and glided up the river that leads toward the cubistic jumble of Manhattan's skyline. No smoke issued from the two stacks. No soot begrimed the upper deckhouse; the engineer had on a stiff collar; the attendants who stooped among the glinting wheels and thrusting, noiseless pistons of the engine room, tried not to get their cuffs dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oil Burner | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

SOCIAL CLASSES IN POST-WAR EUROPE - Lothrop Stoddard - Scribner's ($2). A study of European peasants, industrial laborers, middle class, intellectuals and upper class, showing how they fare now as compared with 1913, with the conclusion that the small farmers fare best and the intellectuals worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Barbadoes Gentleman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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