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After successfully and successively sinking his teeth into a Bulldog, a Tiger, a Judges, and a Jeff, John Harvard may at last be biting off more than he can chew when he meets a powerful navy varsity basketball team on the I.A.B. court at 8:30 tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Quintet Favored to Top Varsity Five In I.A.B. Test Tonight | 2/6/1954 | See Source »

...Huntington, N.Y., is still obsessed with despair. A hollow man sits in a Waste Land landscape daubing at a canvas on which is painted nothing but a big hole. Rats, which to Grosz represents man's conscience "always gnawing at him for the deed he did not do," chew at the easel. This painter once believed in something, explains Grosz, but now he paints only a hole, "without meaning, without anything - nothing but nothingness, the nothingness of our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nothingness of Our Time | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...weather prophet on the radio calls 'inner mitten' showers"), "personalized" writing ("As for us, we would as lief Simoniz our grandmother as personalize our writing"), usually blend good fun with good sense. Full of engaging tidbits, the "dog's breakfast" does not offer much to chew, but more than enough to tickle the taste buds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tidbits & Pieces | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...come to this case," said Federal Judge Harold R. Medina 34 months ago, "without any knowledge of the investment banking business, but I intend to get my teeth into this matter." The court was soon wondering whether there was anything to chew on at all. For nearly three years, Medina fidgeted with ill-concealed impatience while Justice Department lawyers tried to prove that 17 big investment banks had conspired to monopolize the securities business through the syndicate system of negotiated bidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: End of a Marathon | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...About that time, Kindelberger, up until then a teetotaler, decided to investigate drinking. With his customary zeal, he drew up a list of every drink known, systematically made and sampled each. Says he: "In my life I have made and drunk every conceivable drink, even some you had to chew. But in my old age I've learned one thing: there's nothing that beats a good Scotch on ice, with just a drop of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Cats of MIG Alley | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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