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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the counting, calculated to take 30 days, a ''good faith" withdrawal of 10,000 men would be made from the side found weaker in volunteers and a proportionate number would be withdrawn from the opposing side. (Estimated number of foreign fighters in Spain: with Franco, 40,000 Italians, 10,000 Germans; with the Leftists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Feeble Palliative | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...outcome of the season. Mitchell did declare that his present nine had "more spirit and the will to win" than any previous teams. By observation so far this year, Mitchell stated that there is no league club that is outstanding and that pitching throughout the circuit is weaker than usual. With only three Seniors in the present lineup, the squad should be just as strong next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mitchell, Bolles, Mikkola, Harlow Speak at Varsity Club Luncheon | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...Heels from Chapel Hill have been generally considered national collegiate champions five times in the last seven years. North Carolina sends North a considerably weaker team than in past years, but they still stand on their record of not having been defeated since the Princeton match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Faces N.C. Invaders Here | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...Republican Party is certainly weaker than it was then," he explained, "and the Democrats are evidently seriously divided against themselves. I make no predictions, but the present situation would seem to be more favorable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Progressives to Have a Better Chance Than in 1924 | 4/30/1938 | See Source »

...people disliked the old Robert Taylor (for one reason or another) but a lot more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become an international incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

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