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...possess a fountain pen, so in order to be on the safe side he had obtained a cheap pen holder and pen from the hotel, wrapped it up in a bit of newspaper and stuck it into his waistcoat pocket. He produced it and used it to affix his signature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Mutter of Versailles | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Citizens of Cambridge and the College who were abroad at 12 o'clock last night report seeing old men disguised as Dutch Cleanser Maids chasing dirt (they denied membership in the Watch and Ward Society) and stopping in their passing to affix these same posters in places of vantage. One of the nightly messengers, engaged in launching the midnight attack of the Harvard Scrub Woman's Protective Aid Society, when surprised in the let of setting up one of the organization's polices became agitated, and mounting a scrubbing brush rode rapidly away in all directions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Secret Society Enters Lists to Champion the "Goodies" and Cleanliness-Mysterious Midnight Aid Campaign Started | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

Some doubtless well meaning but entirely misguided individuals have formed what is derisively known as the Hoover for President Club at Harvard, and are circulating lists to which students are asked to affix their signatures (or mark, in the case of some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corrupt Practices | 10/16/1928 | See Source »

...faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty in the French and English languages, both texts having equal force, and hereunto affix their seals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Triumph of Kellogg | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...chief control on an airplane is the "joy stick," regulating the ailerons on the wings and the elevator on the tail. Stand a pencil vertically on a table. Affix a piece of cardboard, parallel with the table, to the upper end of the pencil. Slant the pencil at any angle in any direction, keeping its lower end on the table. Imagine that the pencil is the joy stick, the table is the ground, the cardboard is the airplane. Thus, can be seen the approximate positions of a flying ship as determined by manipulating the joy stick. A pilot must constantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: How to Fly | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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