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...Bot Miss Corey thinks we aren't sports--all that hesitancy about volunteering for company officers. Sissies!--and think of the fun Company B had Wednesday afternoon at drill. For a while there was a slight question as to just where they would end up-and-how!--wasn't there, Miss McKenzie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creating A Ripple | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...overseas hats. Custom says "Square that hat." Bot they'd look cute squared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creating A Ripple | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...Just when colleges are scraping the bot tom of the private financial barrel, the Government will undertake a limited experiment in publicly financed higher education. Next autumn there may be another test for new 17-year-olds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Test | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

With stock yields near a record high, bond yields are scraping an all-time bot tom. Treasury bonds-haven of many a former stockmarket dollar-yield less than 2% compared with 3.6% in 1929, a 5% peak after World War I. Top-flight industrial liens yield only 2.3%, half the 1929 rate. Biggest mystery in Wall Street is why investors will grab the bond of a Government-harassed utility paying $30 on a $1,000 investment, but close tight their checkbooks on Chrysler common, which returns $60 a year on exactly the same outlay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: State of the Market | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Farmer "Bot" Smith's hilltop field at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Muffled Broadside | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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