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...soft-sheed but sternsouled guardians who prowl the purlieus of the examination rooms, their cost for the past two semesters of 1926-27 amounted to $3.053.50. The monitors' price, if may be seen, approaches very nearly three times the stationery expense. Some rapid calculation demonstrates the entire outlay as $5.316.35 per College annum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Financial Outlay for Examination Blue-Books Is $1,262.55--Monitor, Sanskrit Costs Form Contrast | 5/25/1928 | See Source »

Bear, lions, tigers, water buffaloes, etc. .30-.405 Soft-nose for safety; steel-jacketed for sure-shooting pelt-collectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Self-Loader | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Elephants, rhinoceros .405 to .500 Soft-nose, with "express" powder charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Self-Loader | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Reception. To welcome and impress the Afghan Potentate, when his train chuffed into Moscow last week, there stepped forward a scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Homage to Majesty | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...threw out first ball. Butch Burnham runs bases for Captain Stevens who has not yet recovered from weekend and refuses to throw in farther than second from center field. Burnham elected pitcher by rising vote. Team will draw lots for batting order tonight. Team finished practice stiff but happy. Soft ball will be in good shape for Saturday Insignia box car couchant on field of buckwheat in hoe signo vincet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonian Holds First Workout for Saturday's Tilt With Crimson--Optimism Reigns High Among Tiger Stars | 5/9/1928 | See Source »

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