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...eyes of Edward Laurence Doheny, 73, California oilman, were damp with grateful tears. His cheeks were pink with happy excitement. His back tingled pleasantly where his smart lawyer, Frank J. Hogan, had thumped him in high delight. "Thank you and God bless you!" he cried to the nine men and three women jurors who had just acquitted him of bribery, in the District of Columbia Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil Paradox | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...more does beer defile Cayuga's blue when the Spring zephyrs bless our land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hail, All Hail, Cornell! | 3/28/1930 | See Source »

...French engineer, one J. A. Thome de Gamond, exhibited the first practical drawings for a Channel Tunnel. In 1875 tne Gunnel Tunnel Co. (still in existence) was organized. Queen Victoria spurred the idea by announcing: "All the women of England will bless the builder of the tunnel for saving them from seasickness," Preliminary borings were actually started. From the chalk cliffs of Dover and from the French shore near Sangatte, mile-long galleries were driven out under the Channel floor. Proving the theory of Engineer de Gamond that the Dover chalk beds run out under the Channel, these abandoned galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Expensive Holes | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...cast our vote for the Harvard indifference: let the solemn asses parade in their swank derbies and their gorgeous pants, let them smoke cigarettes in long holders and look with drooping bored eyes upon the swarming life of the world: but do not, we pray to heaven, bless Harvard's going collegiate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Others See Us | 2/25/1930 | See Source »

...small child, Ben was "courageous, active and clever, rather than firm in his principles." He once amused his father by advising him to cut out the blessing before meals, instead to bless the pantry cupboard once for all and thus save valuable time. Though he was destined for the ministry, after two years' schooling his father realized that Ben would do better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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