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Suddenly from a jutting behind the officials, he saw the calm, lithe little traveler emerge, draw a huge bulldog revolver, fire twice. The President crumpled at Agent Parke's feet. The hot waiting room reverberated horribly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: 1881 Man | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Chicago last week a Mrs. Mary Loretta Watson, 48, made a mistake about her pet bulldog which she had had for five years. She deprived him of a bone. Whereupon he dashed at her, gripped her leg. She tripped. Her calf tore loose in the dog's mouth. She screamed. He tore at her again and again, even after she fainted from loss of blood. A policeman's bullet ended the dog's attack. His mistress died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Animals, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...been a boom decade. Princeton has grown physically; socially it has tightened up. Every year has seen Princeton getting a little more like Yale, the bulldog of Success. Every year, as the practical social-business value of a college education has gone up, like a seat on the Stock Exchange, more and more embryo junior executives have hopefully applied for admission to the freshman class. But we are not yet indistinguishable from Yale. For one thing, we are smaller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giants Upon the Earth | 3/31/1931 | See Source »

...gloves in apology. Carnera danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting in a telling left once in a while but no good rights. The crowd was bored. In the last two rounds Carnera tired and Maloney took courageous chances, dropping his defense and swinging hard. It was like a bulldog barking up a lamppost. The referee hoisted Carnera's glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carnera v. Maloney | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Architecturally there is even less excuse for erecting a chapel on the proposed site. The plans call for the razing of Appleton Chapel and Robinson Annex, in order that a building in the customary bulldog posture may squat across the Yard opposite Widener, thereby effectively removing one of the few remaining airy-approaches to the Yard. A chapel so huge that its wings extend from the back doors of Thayer to the windows of Sever 11 and surmounted with a typical Harvard-Georgian-Colonial tower is not a pleasant prospect. From the point of view of location the thing would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COMPULSORY CHAPEL | 3/10/1931 | See Source »

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