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The Crimson took the offensive for the whole of the game, which was featured by hard but clean playing with a great deal of forceful checking. Mickey Mouse Hovenanian was up to his usual spirited form, dashing behind the goals after the puck, and continually surprising the Tech defense.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.I.T. DOWNED 12-0 AS PUCKSTERS SHOW WEALTH OF POWER | 12/11/1935 | See Source »

Among the paintings, an "Impression of New York Harbour" is very interesting. In this he catches all the bustle of the busy port with its many types of boats, the dinginess of the smoky atmosphere through which the sun burns with a yellow glow, and the towering height of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

Quin Hanna (Lee Tracy) has driven himself into the mayorality of a small New England town. Brilliant, forceful, a man of action and success he has also driven himself up the social scale to marriage with Hope Blake (Julie Haydon). Hope is madly in love with Hanna but he cannot...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/11/1935 | See Source »

An attempt was made yesterday to discover just why the University had adopted such a forceful "no parking" policy concerning an area which, as one indignant "tagoo" declared, seemed to be of little use for anything but parking. This attempt was successfully parried by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Lehman Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yellow Tags, Tied to Vehicles Parked Between Eliot and Kirkland, Cause Petition of Owners | 9/28/1935 | See Source »

Philippa Duke Schuyler, 4, daughter of a Manhattan Negro writer, startles visitors by repeatedly spelling pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoniosis,* informing them that it is the longest word in the English language. A forceful pianist, a determined rhymester, an avid reader of fourth grade books, Philippa has the added distinction of never having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigious Crop | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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