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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well, well, they're starting a little early this year, aren't they? . . . The offer of $25,000 for the Monster still stands. Of course, it must be alive, weigh two tons and be 40 feet long, and by all means it must be in good health. I don't want any ill monsters on my hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again, Nessie | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best birds and bats are imported. Birds are made of fine-grained Spanish cork, covered with French kid, dressed in feathers from Czechoslovakian geese, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Badminton's Rebirth | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

With so many people clamoring for admission, the House Masters must at the same time weigh carefully the number of graduate students allowed to remain, filling rooms for which there is a pressing need. At present the number of graduate students in the Houses represents a large proportion of the number of men who are denied entrance. Although the graduate student has a definite place in the plan, he should be selected with frank skepticism, and his value to the House measured in the light of the unfortunate Sophomore left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FORGOTTEN MEN" | 3/27/1937 | See Source »

...correlation with the feature article of the forthcoming April issue, the program will include a talk by Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, who will weigh the forces affecting business and market conditions. Particular emphasis will be put on ways and means of preventing a recurrence of the recent depression in the wake of the incipient boom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GUARDIAN WILL BROADCAST | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...Rochelle, N. Y., brought to light after the discovery of Detroit's "twin" red-haired Pauline Taylors (TIME, March 1) were Brunette Elizabeth ("Betsy") Anderson, 17, and Elizabeth ("Betty") Anderson, 17. Born the same day, both weigh the same, went to school together, stand the same height, swim, ride horseback, play tennis and badminton. Rated the same I. Q., they are unrelated. Betsy plans to write, Betty to paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Exchange | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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