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Even Harvard men, inured though they are to going for weeks without a drop of water crossing their lips, would feel highly abused at being robbed of their daily ablutions. So imagine the feelings of a thousan beautiful Mount Holyoke girls, stranded without their aqua by a terrific South Hadley drought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Share Our Showers | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

...first hints of dawn, new waves of transport planes came in with more parachutists. This time the planes towed gliders, both aqua-gliders and land-skidders, in trains of from two to four apiece. The gliders cast off from their towing planes and swept down in the dim light, mostly in the Candia and Rethymno sectors. The aqua-gliders had outboard motors which propelled them to prearranged landings. When glidatroops disembarked they pointed their gliders toward objectives and rendezvous as indicators for later airborne forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: Crete Against the Skies | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Fair of 1915, the Paris Fair of 1925, and the Chicago Century of Progress, the new Rose-colored spectacle has much more varied costumes, provides snatches of old tunes, glimpses of past gaiety. By pairing up Waterlulu Eleanor Holm with handsome Swimmer Buster Crabbe, instead of Aqua-caveman Johnny Weissmuller, Rose added oomph to their big aquatic waltz. The water scenes gain from the use of fountains and a "curtain" of shimmering spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old and New Show in Queens | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Liquor (88 proof) distilled from potatoes; name a corruption of aqua vitae, brandy. *Stars at the fusty Metropolitan do not have private dressing rooms. All leading tenors use the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Last Sunday the Governor traveled to Philadelphia to see a fete on the Schuylkill River in which comic divers and aqua-pianists performed. He watched and grinned, then soberly declared: "Those clowns gave me my first laugh in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Labor Governor | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

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