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...course. But I think the men will play better hockey than they did in the last game. We had five new men in that game who had never faced Yale on the ice, four of them had never played Yale in any sport. Now that they're a bit experienced, they'll show up better. It will be a hard contest, but I look for a Harvard victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACH STUBBS OPTIMISTIC BEFORE SECOND YALE GAME | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

...that God Almighty in making the world created cockroaches, erysipelas, blizzards and reformers. Please don't expect a high degree of excellence from us in all things. We will be just as good as the public, to which we look for our support, helps us to be, not a bit better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Propagandum | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...film told a tale of pre-War Russia. Spliced into it for realism was a bit of old newsreel showing Tsar Nicholas II. and his Tsaritsa. Fascinated, poor Vassili Martinow watched the Autocrat of all the Russias stride dimly across the screen and enter a base hospital, where he was greeted by the Commandant. As this official's face came into sharp focus, Vassili Martinow gave the thin, high-pitched scream of an old man, and fainted dead away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: At the Movies | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Said the Rev. Combe: "Our plan is, I know, a bit amateurish but with a few motor cars (which we hope will be given us) and a small fleet of fast motor boats (which we are trying to get) we hope to reach even the most neglected and hardened rum runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bootleg Mission | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...leakage of the latest bit of information contributes testimony to strengthen the indictment. When there is not yet occasion for an official announcement, the news still finds a way. If Harvard has adopted a policy of keeping information until it has lost the chance of novelty, let her follow it without showing the favor of premature publication to newspapers fortunate in their connections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I KNOW A SECRET" | 2/28/1929 | See Source »

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