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...goal to get up speed when carrying the puck. Last week, Howie Morenz received a cup for being the most valuable player to his team in the National Hockey League. In the second game, after 59 min., 32 sec., of overtime play to settle a 3-10-3 tie, Bun Cook of the Rangers made a goal on a pass from his brother Bill.* The Rangers won the third game 1 to 0. By this time, two of the Canadiens best forwards, Aurel Joliat (left wing) and Pit Lepine (alternate center) had been injured enough to keep them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanley Cup: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...friend's montre was a clock no bigger than a large bun. He had bought it in Geneva, where the things were made. Now it was broken. Could M. Jeanrichard do anything about it? M. Jeanrichard could try. He took the watch apart, spent several weeks trying to put it together again. Finally he sold out his forge and went to Geneva. He returned to establish watchmaking in Le Locle. One of his apprentices was a youth named Pellaton. Long after Blacksmith Jeanrichard was dead, Pellatons made watches, saw them grow smaller & smaller, finer & finer. The present Pellaton, Georges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Electric Watch | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Columbia College had 227 students and several buildings at Madison Avenue and 49th Street. Aged 16, N. M. Butler, son of a New Jersey merchant, matriculated in 1878 to find only four of his classmates younger than himself. Slight, slick-haired young Butler busied himself winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside's Miracle | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Please tell your headline writers that they have created a new Chinese city. A fellow-passenger, idly thumbing TIME of Dec. 21, saw under Foreign News p. 16, this subheadline: '"Bun-Yanking'' and his remark that Miss Addams must be getting mixed up in Chinese affairs in Bun-Yanking, China caused some smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1932 | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Bun-Yanking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Run-Yanking | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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