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...what trouble followed Sept. 1929 few U. S. citizens need to be told. Mr. Allen tells it with enough street-corner detail to suggest its charms. In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit. Apple salesmen shivered on wintry corners. Free wheeling was added to necking as a thing to do with cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scary and Screwy | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Since snow conditions on the Sherburne trail are only fair, the annual Harvard race, which was to have been held this week-end, has been called off for the present and may be held at a later date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middlebury Skiers Edge Out Harvard in Placid Tourney | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

Conditions for this week-end are only fair in the Eastern Slope region, but good at Stowe. Conditions for This Week-end Cannon Mt. (Tramway) Fair 17 in. Conway Poor 3 in. Dartmouth Region Poor 3 in. Franconia Notch Fair 13 in. Fryoburg Good 5 in. North Conway Poor 3 in. Pinkham Notch Fair 12 in. Stowo (Mt. Mansfield) Good 30 in. WatervILLe Good 7 in. Wolfeboro Good 5 in. Laurentian Mts. Good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middlebury Skiers Edge Out Harvard in Placid Tourney | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

...Lake Placid Club Snow Birds have invited the Harvard Ski Club to compete in the nineteenth annual College Week tournament at Lake Placid, hold over the New year week-end, it was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Club Invited To Lake Placid's New Year Tourney | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...week-end war speech to the Empire, Prime Minister Chamberlain declared: "Already we know the secret of the magnetic mine and we shall soon master it as we have already mastered the U-boat." But these words went out to the tune of more titanic explosions, under the hulls of Pilsudski, the 14,294-ton flagship of the Polish merchant marine, chartered by the British Government when Poland disappeared, and of Spaarndam, 8,857-ton Holland-America freighter in the Thames estuary. Aboard Pilsudski, torpedoed northwest of Britain, were only her Polish crew and some British cooks, of whom seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Black Moons | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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