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Two thousand excited Germans sat beside Berlin's famed Avis Speedway one day last week, and listened to a lecture on rockets. The lecturer was Fritz von Opel, motor magnate. Beside him stood a little racing car with two unusual accessories. In its rear it had something that looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rocketing | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

College sport suffers because the men most vitally interested in it are men who have the idea of sport as a business. The primary interest of the coach is his reputation. The alumni are bent on advertising their college. As a result the athlete is in an atmosphere of work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADMIRABLE FUTILITY | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

There being exceptions to every rule, perhaps it is only to be expected that Law sometimes loses its dignity. If such instances were few and far between, they might be discounted, but many cases have recently come up where the tradition of "majesty" as a necessary attribute to law seems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAUGHING IT OFF. | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

Though the Pilgrim Fathers founded Massachusetts and literally filled the woods hereabouts in the early history of the colonies, immigration and the growth of cities have worked to render the Pilgrim so rare an avis in Boston now-a-days that the Jewett Players have been forced to advertise for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salome Seeks Psalm Singers at Harvard--25 Sack Cloth and Ash Men Wanted for Two Weeks Pilgrimage in Boston | 10/8/1926 | See Source »

Even Miss Saxon, however, wins only second honors for the evening in competition with Mr. Harry Puck. For Mr. Puck is indeed a rara avis, a musical comedy hero whom the male members of the audience can with equanimity listen to their female companions admire. Besides failing to arouse that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

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