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...from Wellesley indicated that the girls had undergone a brief warm-up session with the Princeton Country Day School, and that everything seemed in good shape for the scrum in Briggs' Cage on Saturday. The H.A.A. announced that the grapplers would dispense with the usual formalities and begin the three-hour halves promptly at eight. It was warned that the entertainment tax would be higher than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS EASILY DOWN KATIE GIBBS' MUGGERS | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...Army plane, chased by other Soviet craft and fired at by Soviet frontier guards, skimmed across the border and came down last week in southern Estonia. Out climbed Soviet Lieutenants Vladimir Umishevsky and Nikolai Gurjev, ashen-faced. After a three-hour flight from Luga, south of Leningrad, their gasoline was exhausted and they had just got across the frontier. They told that Joseph Stalin was purging the Red Air Force, that hundreds of Soviet military pilots had mysteriously vanished in Russia, that they had chosen the desperate risk of flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Refugees | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Prizes will be awarded for both Plan I and Plan II. The examination as conducted under Plan I will be the same as that given in the fall of last year. This will consist of a three-hour written examination on the books listed under Plan I of the pamphlet entitled "Harvard Reading List in American History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMITTEE FORMS TWO PLAN SYSTEM FOR BLISS PRIZES | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

...group which will enter the three-hour competition are Freshmen, the remainder includes seven Seniors, seven Juniors, and six Sophomores. Of the upperclassmen, fifteen live in the Houses, while five are commuters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRTY REGISTER FOR BLISS HISTORY PRIZE | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

...recommendation of a neutral military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such a frenzy that they refused to obey Provisional President Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA: Chaco Echoes | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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