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...secret, even with my own brother, a Freshman, playing right end, opposite Frank Hinkey of Yale, on that team. I backed the team, and with my allowance went to Springfield at considerable expense for an undergraduate, and saw Harvard lose, and the much-talked-of secret practice worthless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Football | 11/4/1933 | See Source »

Deena was badly bitten by the ambition to get away from her cramping Michigan small town, her hopeless ne'er-do-well family. She wanted to get to Manhattan and the Broadway stage. But things were too much for her. Her worthless father died and Deena's hard-won savings went to pay for the funeral. She settled rebelliously down in Micmac, went back to work to get more money. When she met young Larry, bank teller in the local cathedral of commerce, the weather seemed a little brighter. Larry was a steady young fellow but those were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bankster's Moll | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

Sweeten Automobile's attorney moralized last week: "His [Ford's] purpose, of course, was to make the Lincoln company appear to be a worthless enterprise so that Ford himself would appear justified in making a low bid. . . . From that day on there was wickedness and willfulness in the heart of Henry Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Fight | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...This League of Nations is in itself contradictory nonsense and is absolutely worthless! The so-called 'League of Nations' is in reality only a concern composed of those nations who rushed at Germany in criminal onslaught like a band of highway robbers at a traveller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hocking States Germany's Grievances, Outlined By Kaiser, Real---Fatherland in Fear of French | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...this appeared last July in School & Society, written by Professor Walter Woodburn Hyde of the University of Pennsylvania, who observed that "such a history would be comparatively worthless outside of Turkey." Professor Hyde acknowledged he was indebted to History Professor Edgar Jacob Fisher, dean of Robert College in Constantinople, for translation. Last week, Dean Fisher lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Turkey Talk | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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