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...immediate present, however, there is no cause of alarm. At almost any minute of the day one may see splendid examples of courage and quick-thinking on the part of students crossing the Avenue perhaps, as long as it is possible, the situation should be endured as a breeder of Spartan qualities. There are some, it is true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HARDY RACE | 2/25/1927 | See Source »

...first week of a Senate session is more vaudevillian than legislative. It helps the new Senators become acclimated. This session there are only four newly-elected ones: Arthur R. Gould of Maine, Republican, 6 ft. 2 in., healthy and 70; Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, Democrat, able fisherman and breeder of pedigreed hogs; David W. Stewart of Iowa, Republican, onetime Marine, portly, bald and 41; David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Democrat, bachelor, with a deep, rich voice (he had been in the Senate before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Quiet Leader | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Realism. "His diaries are full of Rabelaisian details, the manure and realism of the stock-breeder's life, the amours of mares, the matings and misalliances of hounds whose pups he kills or saves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Washington | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Brooke had announced. In collaboration with Dr. F. A. E. Crew of Edinburgh University, he had bred a strain of mice which, when 16 days old, became bald; when three weeks old, lost the fur off their backs; when a month old, ran naked. Some day, predicted Mouse-Breeder Brooke, at the present rate of shaving, clipping, singeing, bobbing, waving, shingling, barbers will be unnecessary to mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naked Mice | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...what age did Mouse-Breeder Brooks's mice become bald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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