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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After having been kept from participating in the team's contests during the major part of the season by scholastic difficulties he overcame them in time to play in the Yale match and win his letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ISELIN ELECTED TO CAPTAIN SQUASH TEAM NEXT SEASON | 2/28/1928 | See Source »

...Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing that the Willis Will-to-Win was "a pulsing, throbbing movement that is hourly gaining force throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidates' Row | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...tariff schedule of 1,200 items was announced by its drafter, M. Daniel Ser-ruys, Permanent Chief of the Ministry of Commerce. His schedule is primarily designed to win farmer votes at the spring election. It sharply reduces the duties on farm tractors, doubles or triples those on many foodstuffs, and abolishes the duty on U. S. wheat seed, now popular in France. Sugar, from the U. S., which France has not heretofore imported, should flow in if the bill becomes law, for it would reduce the duty on sugar from 290 francs per 100 kilos to 100 francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Political Week | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Pound Club, with 28 points, the Warren Club, with 27 1-2, the Cardozo Club, with 27 1-2, and the George Gray Club, with 26 3-4 points, have been the only first year law clubs to win all of their four arguments, according to a recent announcement of the results of the interclub series of arguments among the first year men. The Austin, Bryce, and Scott Law Clubs won three arguments and tied one, while 12 clubs, the Brandeis, Butler, Chafee, Frankfurter, Hand, Holmes, Langdell, Lincoln, Sanford, J. Smith, Sutherland, and Westengard, won three of their arguments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS | 2/24/1928 | See Source »

...jump. The heave of C. A. Eastman '24, which covered 43 feet and one half inches in the shot put, surpassing the old record by seven inches and the recovery of Captain Merrill from some recovery of Captain Merrill from some collisions at the start of the 300, to win second place, were the high spots of the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Triumphs Add Lustre to Triangular Meet History | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

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