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With a successful western weekend behind them, the Varsity polo team goes into action against a well-rated Yale contingent tonight in the Common-wealth Armory. Captain Tommy Davis backs up Towny Winmill and Peter Jay in the team's tussle to wrest victory from a Yale trio which has a better record, but less playing experience this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY MALLETMEN TO MEET ELI TEAM TONIGHT | 3/9/1935 | See Source »

...putting up the arms. Morgan & Co. and G. M.P. Murphy & Co. were putting up $3,000.000 to raise an army of 500.000 veterans which apparently would be concentrated at Elkridge. If General Butler refused to be "the man on the White Horse" who would lead it into Washington and wrest the Government from Franklin Roosevelt, command would be offered to others in on the scheme-General Johnson, General MacArthur, the three ex-commanders of the American Legion. General Butler said he had "bided his time" until he had heard the whole plot, then made his revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plot Without Plotters | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...best their walking sticks into ploughshares, and let our women turn in their card tables for threshing machines. Let us open our shirts at the throat and sing as the cool winds of Heaven caress our hot foreheads. Back to the soil! Live as our forefathers did! Wrest a living from the land! Such action is our only hope of salvation, our only means of procuring peace, indeed after a little of such action most of us will find ourselves not only back to the soil, but resting comfortably beneath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Festivities Of Class Day Marked With Ivy Oration And Stunts of Reunioners | 6/21/1934 | See Source »

...which gave them a free trip to experience, completed the demoralizing process. After the Armistice they came back to Greenwich Village, whence they escaped again when they could, to Europe and the country of little magazines. "In those days young American writers were drifting everywhere in Wrest Europe and Middle Europe; they waved to each other from the windows of passing trains." Back from Europe again, forced home either by economic pressure or half-confessed nostalgia, the Lost Generation found itself unwilling to go all the way home to its various Midwestern birthplaces, congregated in Manhattan, cynically took jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Generation | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...York, May 28--An Ambition to circle the world in less than a week and wrest the globe-girdling record from the United States and Wiley Post was revealed by Capt. Maurice Rossi, French airman, in an exclusive interview to night

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 5/29/1934 | See Source »

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