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...happened in that great course History 1, and Mr. Perkins, head tutor of the well-known and far-famed boll-boys was lecturing. He was lecturing well, in fact he was lecturing brilliantly. Bent over the desks were hundreds of unfortunates absorbing learning willynilly, their flying fingers striving in vain to keep pace with the gush of dates and of treaties that flowed forth with immense speed. Through Marlberough's campaigns sped Mr. Perkins with flying jaw, through the contemporary Continental complications, through the peace settlements, through the founding of the Whigs and of the Tories, until at last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

...transatlantic airplane passenger, bald, erratic Charles A. Levine has been ar rested for counterfeiting, pledging stolen stock and sidewalk brawling; broken a leg; had four street accidents; lost the fortune he made in Wartime junk by speculation, his wife by divorce and his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll by marriage. To end his string of failures, Flier Levine turned on the gas jets of a Brooklyn kitchen. Forty minutes later a rescue squad informed him that his suicide had failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...square foot. Furthermore, the swarming insects were deserting drought-withered grains and grasses for the nearest succulent growth-principally corn. Continuous rains in the southeast and no rains at all in the southwest held cotton around 12? per Ib. The Mississippi Plant Board reported an average count of 119 boll weevils to the acre, against 75 the week before, 323 year ago. Prospects of a reduction in breeding stock and mounting feed prices boosted topnotch hog prices to the best level since October ($5 per cwt.), cattle prices to the highest since September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodities | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...area plowed under. The Government is to pay cotton farmers (and the consumer will pay the Government through processing taxes), between $125,00,00 and $150,000,000 for turning under one-quarter of the crop. Yet due to good growing conditions, to the laziness of 1933 boll weevils and to the large acreage planted by the farmers the net reduction in the crop is estimated at less than 700,000 bales or about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Indices | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...still possible for the Undergraduate, but no longer feasible; a jester is not to be trusted with the salt. Arthur was in, of, and for the bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAST IBIS | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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