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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interdormitory Wrestling Meet which has been in progress for the past week, was completed yesterday in a tie between Gore and Smith, each with three points, followed by Standish with two and McKinlock with none. Several promising men are among the winners who will be counted on heavily to make up the personnel of the Freshman team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GORE AND SMITH TIE FOR FIRST IN WRESTLING MEET | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...welter of questions to be settled on the banks of the Charles, not the least is the problem of the number of meals to be eaten in the houses and the charge to be imposed. The Harvard CRIMSON views the change which the University will make for meals as "contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference." And elsewhere a former Harvard man expresses the opinion that the charge per week virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...Instead, he exhibited his taille directe with rosy granite, and black onyx shaped for shape rather than excitement -gigantic heads, writhing nudes, an orchid of beaten lead. He wants to be respectable. He has married his onetime pupil, Alice Carr of Seattle. He wants commissions, he hopes to sell, make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shockless Sculptor | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Ga., Bess, fox terrier, went up with her master in an airplane to make her 20th parachute jump. At a height of 1,500 feet she was dropped over the side, swaddled in paraphernalia. She fell swiftly all the way; the parachute did not open. When mechanics approached the limp bundle on the field, they saw ripples under the cloth, saw Bess emerge and lope off toward the hangar where she sleeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Winged Dog | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

They got out, shook hands with the pilot, were addressed by Walter Beech, president of Curtiss-Wright Sales Corp., professed themselves satisfactorily air-minded. Curtiss-Wright proposed to take up at least 500 executives during the winter to familiarize them with air travel, make potential customers for passenger air services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Salesmanship | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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