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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Destry Rides Again is charged with enough buckaroo comedy* and sheer animal spirits to keep cinemaudiences chortling even when there is nothing to laugh at, makes even the widely advertised Dietrich v. Merkel hair-pulling match (the closest the picture comes to being vulgar) seem just a romp. As entertainment, Producer Pasternak's western, with hardly more pretensions than a cow town, is likely to be voted best of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson will have another chance to get back on the winning track again when a strong B. U. team invades the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. The Terriers lost to Harvard last year in one of the closest games of the year, as the Feslermen came from behind in the closing minutes to close up a gap in the score...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: WESLEYAN TAKES 53-37 VICTORY FROM QUINTET | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson's Cambridge neighbors, second closest to Radcliffe in distance, are also second closest to Radcliffe hearts, the poll revealed, as exactly 60 girls or 14.0 per cent voted for the Engineers...

Author: By David DONALD Peddle, | Title: "Radcliffe Hearts Belong to Harvard" Is Indicated by Poll of Shepard Street | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...opponents," and soon gave them a transmitting and receiving apparatus containing three American steel tubes; and a secret code. The set was not so good; had to have some German parts put in. The Germans carried it back into Germany, and the Britons at once began sending in the closest secrets of their Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Toronto recently Correspondent Hugh S. Watt of the London Daily Telegraph, with the Times the newsorgan closest to the British Government, significantly told Canadians: "I can say on the very best authority that British political circles are thinking in terms of federation after the war. I believe they are ready to give up certain essential elements of sovereignty in order to establish some form of world order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: A Better Europe? | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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