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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Siegel of the Traveler: "On the basis of Harvard's performance last week, I pick Dartmouth to win. But if I have my usual luck, Harvard will win by about three touchdowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Predictions by Local Sports Experts | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Among the newly discovered objects reported were two spiral nebulae, un-usual in that they possess no concentrated nuclei; and a Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Cetus, a new member of a class of irregularly shaped, conglomerate stellar systems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUE TO GALAXIES IS IN CEPHEID VARIABLES | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...wrong again, as usual, but from where I am sitting, it looks like the second world war will simmer down to a community argument between England, France and Germany, and may be over before we realize it. When the war is over and the soldiers return home, they will find a surplus of guns and ammunition and a shortage of food and clothes. When that time rolls around, don't you think it would be a good idea for Mr. Roosevelt to call his congressmen in and say: "Boys, we've spent several billions trying to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week, to the delight of tourists contemplating the usual spectacle of a Houseful of sleepy fat men, quiet Mr. Woodrum spotted a hole in Ham Fish's position, crashed through it to score standing up. He charged that 37 Republicans and one Democrat, led by Ham Fish, had organized a "propaganda racket that makes the utility outfit and that of Dr. Townsend look like pikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idle Hands | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...football, linemen do the dirty work but the backs get the bouquets. This year, as usual, pre-season football prognosticators focused their attention on the outstanding college backs of the year. Most experts agreed that this year's crop was the most brilliant collection of all time: Michigan's Harmon and Kromer, Purdue's Brock and Brown, Notre Dame's Saggau and Zontini, Tennessee's Cafego, Pitt's Cassiano, Fordham's Eshmont, Duke's McAfee, many & many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Backs | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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