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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass flight of first historic importance. Not because of its distance (over 1,000 miles). Not because it brought invaluable and much needed help to the Finns and lots of trouble to the Russians, who are short on seaplanes. But because it cast the brightest landing light to date on the tangled surface of the Russian-German agreements, did much to illuminate the contemplated future policies of both those countries, and foreshadowed a major alteration in the course of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Cross Into Crusade? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock five of the brightest of past Crimson stars, all of them National Champions at one time or another, will match shots with this year's Barnaby Varsity edition on the Hemenway Gymnasium courts. The team, composed of Germaine, Gildden, Palmer Dixon, Seekman and Larry Pool, and Herb Rawlins, which faces Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity tomorrow is by all odds the most brilliant array of squash talent ever assembled together...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Waht's His Number? | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...lights from the faces of thin, flat snow crystals which tend to pancake while falling-that is, to keep their reflecting surfaces horizontal so that light rising from below is reflected practically straight down. Since turbulent winds tumble tiny snow crystals in all directions, thus dispersing the light, the brightest pillars are seen only on calm nights. A pillar is always the same color as that of the light at its base: the pillars above neon lights are red. The height of the halo is proportional to the strength of the light source. Canadian weathermen have "measured" pillars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pillars of Fire | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Exports, counted on since September to absorb overproduction, still got nowhere. Brightest spot was Latin America: October takings were up 14% from September, 18% from October 1938. But cash buying is a luxury for Latin America necessitated by War II's cutting down its barter trading with Europe. By last week most Latin American Governments had eaten into their New York bank balances, were wondering whether Washington intended to do some export pump priming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: For Pessimists | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

With the Big Green at low ebb, chances for a Crimson win this fall glowed brightest in many years. Regardless of paper statistics, injuries, and inexperience, the Crimson is determined to and should win this afternoon

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Crimson Squad Set to Meet Fierce Indian Onslaught; Dinner Heralds Forty-Sixth Meeting of Two Teams | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

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