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...Harvard Superiority in fail minor sports for the past two years is offset by this year's 12 to 7 defeat in football. In 1926 the Crimson and Blue elevens fought up and down the Stadium to a scoreless tie, but in the Bowl last fall two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell spelled downfall for the Harvard team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURVEY OF HARVARD-YALE CONTESTS GIVES MARGIN OF SUCCESS TO CRIMSON | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

Property damage was beyond, estimate. Millions of acres of cotton land were under water, with the flood moving on the "sugar bowl" section of Louisiana from which comes much of the nation's sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Continued | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...very unsatanic friend, who nevertheless resembled Job's tempter in that he had done much going to and fro upon the earth, once described to me an extraordinary scene witnessed while he was sojourning in a distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...Author. "Jig" Cook's genius for play, rich and unashamed, was the thing that made him a great "spiritual communist." When there was little wine left in the bowl, "Give it all to me," he cried, "and I guarantee to intoxicate all the rest of you." Susan Glaspell may puzzle folk who would have withheld their share of the wine. Just when this radiant book, dedicated to "Jig" Cook's children (she has none), is published, she has remarried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Pericles of Provincetown* | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...African Gander," by Simeon Pickering, depicts rather startlingly, for the first time, a well-known young woman reclining on a sofa with no clothes on at all. A sad gander meditates her buxom figure while the young married woman herself contemplates a bowl of "peaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Freedom, Drunkenness | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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