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...Salary capless baseball can no longer be tolerated. Pray for an owner's strike. That's right. I want a lockout. I want all the overpaid players to suck it up for the good of the league...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, | Title: New Year's Resolution: Get a Salary Cap | 12/19/2000 | See Source »

...attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing of 1942. A soldier on the Dunkirk beach recalled the brash bravery of the B.E.F. Commander: "Capless, his head cocked, he watched the dive bombers. Then he dashed toward a machine gun mounted on a tripod, and single-handed took them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...aristocrats. The explosion came last week when a fresh Nazi decree ordered abolished all the student fraternities at Göttingen. including the aristocratic Korps. Promptly more than 1,000 capped and beribboned student nabobs met in mass protest. While they vowed defiance to Adolf Hitler's minions, capless and unribboned students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!" At this the nabobs attacked, starting the bloodiest riot seen in years at Gottingen. To stop it shocked professors called the police who called firemen who rushed to the scene with all Gottingen's fire engines and restored order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rift over Ribbons | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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