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...eight consecutive victories the Harvard team has caged 35 goals. W. B. Wood '32 and F. R. Stubbs Jr. '32 form a brilliant passing pair, with Stubbs scoring consistently on fast, rising shots Potter Palmer '32, the speediest member of the sextet, and Captain C. C. Cunningham '32 are both expert body-checkers who have broken up many determined assaults on their territory. C. D. Draper '32 has allowed only three shots to get past him into the Harvard goal

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED 1932 SIX SKATES AGAINST YALE | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

...years it has been nearly impossible to secure important Japanese paintings because they are prized by native collectors and not allowed to come to the West. The pair of fourteenth-century shrine doors painted with two Buddhist figures in two colors has therefore peculiar interest to the Museum. The collection of early Chinese Buddhist drawings has also been increased to a full dozen through the gift of Sir Percival David of London, who has recently added three more. Sir Percival has also presented the Museum with a pottery bowl, one of a unique pair, the other of which remains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

Governor Long discovered a shoemaker who would supply solid boots, good for six months of prison mileage, at $1.60 the pair. This figure made the shoe bill only $3.20 per convict per annum. Pleased with himself, Governor Long loudly called attention to a saving of $50,000 a year or $200,000 for a four-year term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gov. Long's Shoes | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...first day of the trial, many a pair of eyes scanned the senate gallery and focussed on a middle-aged woman-Mrs. O. O. Hammonds. It was because of her that the impeachment proceedings, long rumbling and long delayed, had been labeled the "ewe lamb rebellion" (TIME, Jan. 28). Four days before the opening of the trial, last week, she resigned her office. Governor-Suspend Johnston announced that, if he were acquitted, he would not reappoint her "in any capacity whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ewe Lamb Rebellion | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...After John Harvard has had 293 years of varying success, six weeks of apple sauce bid fair to leave him with nothing but a pair of pants and a coat of copper nitrate. And now that tradition has been blackjacked and thrown into a corner, these innovators are licensed to peddle their synthetic culture to the universities, colleges and preparatory schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Lampooned | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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