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...glory attached to that. When the Michigan team plays eleven boys who just happen to attend Harvard we shall eschew the Michigan locomotive and the skyrocket. Bue we shall keep our eyes open to see whether Barry Wood, with fourth down and goal to go, glances at his wrist watch and rushes off the field explaining: "Excuse me, please, I have a heavy bit of reading to do for economics and I'll have to run down to the library. The Grand Rapids Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/10/1930 | See Source »

Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, suffered bruises, cuts, a sprained wrist, when the motor in which he, his son and some Ku Klux friends were riding smacked into a telephone pole near Decatur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...attempting to prevent baby confusion, maternity hospitals write the baby's family name on a piece of adhesive tape and fix it to the infant's body; or fasten a string of lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby-fight | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...studying without some break of a recreational sort; instructors of the old school will claim the present day student has become lazy through easy curricula, and most students will rationalize their action by believing that recreation will freshen their minds and build up a physical reserve for their wrist to be used in the three-hour penmanship and memory contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Westward Look, the Land is Bright | 6/5/1930 | See Source »

...Batchelder '31, catcher on the University baseball team, will be out of the game for at least a month with a broken right wrist suffered in the Pennsylvania game last Saturday, it was learned yesterday. The injury of the star backstop occurred, as far as it is known, in the third inning of the Quaker fray, and was not known until yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BATCHELDER OUT WITH BROKEN RIGHT WRIST | 5/13/1930 | See Source »

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