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...Publix girls are, as usual, the best thing about the stage show. Their steps may pass through recognizable cycles as the weeks go by, but they are graceful and fair, and their costumes, like the stage effects, are proof of an architectonic imagination somewhere. But this week they sing. It's a talkie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...place where Washington passed most of his boyhood has also been the subject of much controversy; recently this too has been settled, definite proof having been obtained that it was at the old Strother's Farm opposite Fredericksburg. At present little remains of this historic farmhouse, with the possible exception of a shed popularly called "The Surveyor's Office," which might very well have been a chicken-coop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Facts Brought to Light in Recent Discoveries in Old Washington Letters | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

Earnings. The most tangible proof of copper's prosperity lies in the earnings of the copper companies, nearly all of which showed 1928 earning increases (first nine months) of 46% to 600% over the corresponding 1927 period. Anaconda paid a $3 dividend in 1927, $4 in 1928 (now on a $7 basis); Kennecott paid a $5 dividend in 1927, $8 in 1928; Andes, no dividend in 1927, $3 in 1928; Phelps-Dodge, $6 in 1927, $10 in 1928. Total copper earnings for 1928 increased approximately 80% over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strong Copper | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Proof of the growing interest in ping-pong at Harvard is furnished by the popularity of the tournament, now being conducted by Harry Cowles Squash and Tennis Shop, in which many prominent squash and ten-is players are entered. Heading the list of seeded men is M. T. Hill '31. Other seeded players are H. M. Culley, Gurdon Worcester, A. G. Thacher Jr. '29, R. S. Kazanjian 2G., G. H. Perkins 3S.A., W. J. Iselin '29, and A. Ingraham '30. B. H. Whitbeck '29, captain of the University tennis team, and T. E. Jansen '26, runner-up in the State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perspiring Ping Pong Potentates Perform Perseveringly Pushing Pills 'Pon Planked Platform in Preceptor's Pit | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...League of Nations is the greatest center of moral pressure in the world today," said Arthur Sweetser '11, a member of the Secretariat of the League, to a representative of the CRIMSON in a recent interview. Proof of this he explained, lies in the fact that even in the settlement of such issues as the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute the League has never had to resort to force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: League of Nations, Proposed Ten Years Ago Today, is Center of Moral Pressure, Says Sweetser--U.S. Helpful | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

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