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...Derby, Yale '27: "There isn't any beet. Also, the University is too spread out both physically and bureaucratically, which takes away from the college spirit and the ability to find one's way around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Expound Varied Theories in Diagnosis of Harvard Ailments--Many Blame Rum, Red Tape | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...beet pullers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contraptions | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard students, as they walk prosaically about the Yard, on commonplace gravel walks, realize that unseen individuals like a Beet of moles, are hurrying through subterranean tunnels not more than a yard beneath their feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explorer Greeted by Withering Heat in University's Subterranean Passages--Steam Pipes Occupy Tunnels | 10/5/1926 | See Source »

...mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal Air Force had volunteered-the listeners' eyes shifted to a beet-red, grinning stalwart beside Pilot Cobham-and together they had whirred high over the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, drifting slightly out of their course and bringing up in the Dutch East Indies There, on the island called Komodo, they had seen a portent-two enormous captive dragons, ten feet long, with claws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: England to Australia | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Last week Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska received from Frank Thomas, President of the Co-operative Beet Growers' Association of Scotts Bluff a telegram: "Feeling is running high here. There is danger of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hanged by the Neck | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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