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...Scandinavian monarch is greeted by his subjects with no servility, no boot-licking but with the affectionate bonhomie that a Protestant layman might show to an amiable Bishop of his sect. Last week Denmark's giant-tall King Christian X, on one of his daily horseback jaunts through Copenhagen's busiest streets, was not surprised when a passing truck driver waved him a cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Christian's Fall | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Next day the Clipper again buzzed southwest. This time Capt. Musick chose to fly at 8,000 ft., crossed the Equator and swept down after ten hours in the air to the "South Pacific's finest harbor," the boot-shaped bay of Pago-Pago (pronounced pango-pango) on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. Some 1,600 miles from Kingman, American Samoa is a cluster of six islands, inhabited by 300 whites and 10,000 Polynesians who used to eat each other. Tutuila is the largest island, 16 miles long, crowned with the lush, 2,000-ft. peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pan American Down Under | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Building since the 38-36 Pennsylvania thriller, and the same brand of play was continued as the five swamped the Jumbos at Medford Thursday. The second game of the Yale series, on March 13, will form part of a doubleheader that features the swimming meet with the Elis to boot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/27/1937 | See Source »

These are the men who go South today to face their stiffest competition, and enjoy the pleasantest of hospitality to boot. Intensive drills have brought them to the high point of the season, and they are set to continue the string started a year ago, to take up where Dick Harlow left off in November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/19/1937 | See Source »

...British Boot & Shoe Trade Association, deciding that the only way to fit a shoe properly is to study the shod foot in action, exhibited a rubber overshoe carrying six electrical contacts at key pressure points. When the wearer walks over a metal surface, electrical instruments record the pressure changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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