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...State legislatures want ultimately to defeat the Communists they must not be afraid to vie with them in convincing their constituents which system of government is most beneficial to their interests and those of society generally. The suppression of an organization by law can not prevent the dissemination of ideas, especially when those ideas have a strong appeal to many exploited individuals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A JUSTIFIED PETITION | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

...Victor Levintritt '35, one of the best breaststrokes in the country is an other swimmer who has developed fast under the watchful eye of Coach Ulen. Coming to Harvard from the Riverside School in New York City, which, like the Swiss navy, had a swimming team but no pool, Vie was a member of the 1935 Freshman team but was ineligible his Sophomore year. He his been beaten but twice in dual competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...cerie castle, isolated in an Austrian wood with an atmosphere of heavily shadowed lighting and a background of student music, the two horror merchants settle many long-standing scores concerning wars and wives. Panels slide, black cats stalk, mysterious servants silently do their masters' bidding, and strong wills vie with each other. The loosely connected story fails to give even a logical order to the plot, and the result is an unconvincing succession of almost unrelated incidents designed to strike terror to the hearts of men. Even the "black cat" has nothing to do with the general action...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: "BLACK CAT"--Keith's Memorial | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...French club has an exceptions kicker in Victor Casanova, while the return of Jose Mayoraga and vie Raring former football star will strengilien the Harvard lineup. The game on the best exhibitions of light play ver seen at Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAY FRENCH RUGBY CLUB | 5/19/1934 | See Source »

Under Books in your March 19 issue of TIME, you show a photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger, and I failed to see any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat," although I do not propose to vie with any member of TIME'S staff to detect a resemblance of a horseface, frog-face, pig-face, or fat-cheeked-rat"-face in man. If you really meant by this statement that his character was ratlike, why not be honest about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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