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...dietary flagellation, but in a quest for cheap foods. He has passed many a night hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working out agricultural formulas; boomerangs, tennis, badminton, horseback riding give him exercise and open air. thus combating a faint family strain of tuberculosis which has not touched robust Henry Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Stranger | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Hitler may see his blitzkrieg invasion of Denmark and Norway turn into a boomerang according to Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government, who like most of the members of the Faculty, yesterday was noncommittal about the rapid succession of events in Scandinavia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scandinavia to Be Dangerous For Nazis, Emerson Maintains | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...other hand, if such an air offensive failed to succeed, and succeed soon, she would have incurred the strategic disadvantage of greatly widening the path and increasing the scope for the Allied air forces which would become an increasing boomerang with every stage of the latter's growth. She would also immediately simplify the British naval blockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN FRONT: No Action? | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Like Secretary Wallace, Biochemist Sando* is an enthusiastic boomerang thrower, and he has made some fine boomerangs from Plexiglas for the Wallace group of boomerangers. The first ones were transparent, and so hard to see that, when they boomeranged, they sometimes bopped the thrower. Now Dr. Sando makes his boomerangs of red Plexiglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scmdo's Amber | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...wife when you are ready to take one, but I want you to begin now to stand for a standard of high integrity for young people in their relationship with women. When you are tempted to play with the love of girls, remember your sisters and mother. "The boomerang strikes harder," you know. Your father, Walter Malvar. Central Echo, Central Philippine College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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