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The great gravities of the planets affect each other as they circle around the Sun and make their orbits slightly irregular. It was man's mathematical ability to measure such orbital variations that permitted Astronomer Lowell to declare that an unknown planet was butting Neptune's orbit out of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Percival? Cronos? | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Elevated trains stopped to watch. An advertising airplane roared and blinked overhead. A smart police cordon idled around in the outfield like alert mannikins on a playing board of green baize. But in the bottom of the cone of white light at the centre of it all, Fighters Schmeling and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schmeling v. Uzcudun | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

The game was revived in 1871, when students engaged in their contests outside the Yard, on the Cambridge Common. The resurrected football was for the first time governed by rules, tripping, striking, hacking, lurking or butting thereafter prohibited. The players were driven off the Common by an order of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Mauler was ready for the scrap 'cap, and 'e won't cup up my eyes, either. In all the time I've been fighting only one man did that, and 'e did by butting. . . . I've been reading where Tunney is supposed to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snooze | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Here it is. Ask your subscribers if they enjoy reading about rams butting fat women and pigs slobbering on people. If they like it, I will pay you double price for TIME for ten years. If they do not care for it, I get TIME ten years for nothing and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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