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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after being perfectly sickeningly hot, it has turned icy cold. We are five in a room, but hope that will be altered as there is no room to move and until I went home and got a tin jug & basin for our room, 24 women had to wash at the kitchen sink, amongst the cooking & washing up! It really was the limit and I thought I should really have to chuck it. It wasn't so much the discomfort as the feeling one was a prisoner, but now we are getting 48 hours on duty and 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Spokane, Wash. (U.P.)--The collegiate spirit prevailed when small towns that dot the inland empire were first named. Across the Idaho-Washington state line in heavily timbered country are seven tiny villages, named by a group of college students. Their names are Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pur due, and Stanford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Backwoods Towns Names | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Whenever dictators want to wash dirty political linen, they run it through a plebiscite, and it comes out pure as Ivory Soap. Last week Soviet Russia made it perfectly clear that Eastern Poland had all along pined to be invaded. While the Moscow press carefully emphasized that there was complete freedom of opinion at the polls, Poles, Ukrainians and White Russians flocked to voting places and cast ballots for candidates for the new National Assemblies (Soviets) of Western Ukraine and White Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freedom of Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, November 3 (WUPS)--Say, Bokum and Wilson Harvard White wash Tigers. Spreyer Crimson score Grose fast, if it a Pearson further thought. The Wieman's chance isn't Worth much--Weishelt, he can't Winston, Were going to Wade through little Aubray. If we can Helden the Balentine we'll Tierney down the field. Oh Meyerhols your breath. But all your Jackson the Crimson for all's Wells that ends well. Alterdice are for Harvard--Will Rice to the occasion...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: DIXON WAY: WIEMAN EXPECT A HARLOW-EEN TRICK--HUEY | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...Medical Record last fortnight, Psychiatrist Frederick Lemere of Seattle, Wash, presented the following testimonial to the power of a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Testimonial | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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