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...that famed disinterestedness towards things worldly. Has he succeeded? No, most emphatically, no!--And what's more, he knows perfectly well that there are many more like him around Harvard Square. For their benefit he can suggest at least three ways of utilizing a part of a fortunately prolonged week-end...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/21/1931 | See Source »

...previous contests on their week-end trip, the New York University team defeated Boston University 9 to 4, and M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman and Minor Sports Active in Weekend Clashes as Post Mid-year Season Gets Underway | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...approaching week-end will bring Preparatory School delegates to a conference engineered by the Phillips Brooks House in an effort to show the neophytes what college is all about. For long years the University has doubtless appeared dim and distant, and the program will bring the gathering in direct contact with reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAND AHEAD | 2/5/1931 | See Source »

...Lucia, a submarine tender arrived in Devonport (within Sir Hubert's command), 24 hours late, on New Year's day, giving her a very short period in which to coal, ammunition, clean and paint ship before sailing for the Caribbean. No week-end leave was given. Sailors feared that their regular "Christmas leave," already reduced in the submarine flotilla from 15 to 13 days, would be abolished. Sunday morning a detail was piped on deck to finish painting ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mutiny | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Machado. Tremendously resolute, sagacious and most calm, President Gerardo Machado y Morales has probably suppressed more uprisings than any other living chief of state. Characteristically he did not allow last week's news of munition running to spoil his week-end plans. After ordering out the entire Cuban Navy he went fishing, as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Slow and Easy. . . . | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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