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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still recovering from the last great glaciation of the Ice Age, though for chronological purposes this period is considered to have ended some 20,000 years ago. The continental ice sheet which once covered the northern United States still exists in Greenland where it is still retreating. Despite various speculations, the reason for such climate changes is obscure...
...they had never existed in the first place; 2) that they had been written up on the books to keep the company apparently prosperous while Coster swindled it out of $4,000,000; 3) that much of his booty went for blackmail. Revealed by one or another of the various investigations probing the great drug swindle, these general conclusions were partially confirmed by Impostor Coster himself-in a slightly incoherent, wholly melodramatic note written just before he shot himself. Excerpts...
...accommodate even a cot. This simply means that the really sick patients are trapped in their beds in times of emergencies, and everyone is at all times generally inconvenienced. There is a crying need for more modern equipment. Although a large sum of money was spent last summer in various improvements, this appears to be only a stop-gap measure, and Stillman's facilities remain inadequate...
...fourth successive triumph for the Stahleymen, who won the contest without the services of several first string men. Coach Stahley used various combinations and gave his reserves a chance to see much action...
Starting their annual trek homewards for Christmas next week will be more students suffering from various wheezes and coughs than has been the case before this recess in the last four years. An unusually, severe December has resulted in over five hundred more visits to the Hygiene Building for respiratory troubles than for the corresponding period last fall, and if past records are any indication of future predictions, this figure is due to increase still more alarmingly after the New Year. This January should be no exception to past seasons, when numerous undergraduates have returned limp and exhausted from...