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October 20, 1929

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FENCERS' CLUB OPENING TODAY

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Boys Like Hymns and Heroic Poetry in Church, But Wriggle at Talks on Life, Dr. Watson Finds

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An attempt to find out why most youngsters wriggle uncomfortably through church services, and to devise a service which will hold their attention to the end, is the object of experiments made public today by Dr. Goodwin Watson, associate professor in the department of psychology of Teachers College, Columbia ...

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FORDHAM CONQUERS HOLY CROSS, 7 TO 0; Janis Gets Touchdown in Final Five Minutes on Lateral at the 2-Yard Line. 25,000 SEE THE CONTEST Forward Pass From Fisher to Murphy Nets 44 Yards for the Victors in Drive for Score.

By John Drebinger

It took the Fordham ram a long time to get himself untangled in his annual gridiron struggle with Holy Cross at the Polo Grounds yesterday, but when he finally pointed his nose in the right direction he would not be denied, with the result that to the ...

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GIRL STOW AWAY RIDES TO EUROPE AND BACK; Student Nurse, However, Failed fo Set Foot on Shore-- Passengers Aid Her.

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J Wolfson returns to U S on S S Milwaukee after making trip to Hamburg on S S Albert Ballin

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LONDON EXPERIENCES A THEATRICAL RENAISSANCE; As Here, the Talkies Seem to Have Helped The Commercial Drama

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LONDON, Oct. 3. AT the moment when the wise men had begun to say very fcolishly that the theatre would be killed by the talkies, the theatre began to show signs of new and vigorous commercial life.

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