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...First to snap up the bargain rates for Fair-owned buildings was big Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. General Electric, Ford, General Motors, Firestone, Carrier Corp. also signed up. By week's end Florida was the only State to renew her contract; Ohio the only one (of 33) to say she wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tomorrow and 1940 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...worried by the fact that Harvard's grid schedule this year includes three snap games. "Two snaps ought to be enough in an average year," he says, "but what's the use of our going in for suicide schedules? If Harvard went in for hiring professionals, they wouldn't have to fool around with set-up opening games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...dummy scrimmage which followed the contact work occupied the greater part of the afternoon session. Since the Harlow system is largely dependent on a smooth and fast functioning attack, emphasis was laid on snap and deception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW STRESSES PRECISION, SPEED IN PRACTICE SESSION | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...friend of mine, who was there lately, tells me that he asked one Swiss after another what was the name of the President, and that they all sought refuge in polite astonishment at such ignorance, and, when pressed for the name, could only screw up their eyes, snap their fingers, and solemnly declare that they had it on the tips of their tongues. This is just as it should be. ... In the Republics of France and of America the president is of an extrusive kind. His office has been fashioned on the monarchic model and his whole position is anomalous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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