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...lengths ahead of the left. Captain Gundlach and Mike Aldis are a nearly airtight combination. Gunny, at right guard, provides the experience of three years of Varsity football, while Mike, playing next door to him at right tackle, adds 202 pounds of well-placed beef plus some of the cleanest tackles that have been seen of late on Soldiers Field. Over on the left part of the outfit things are not quite so stabilized. There are four men who have almost equal right to two positions. The two Bills, Messrs, Bill Lane and Ditto Burton, are never quite sure which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/23/1934 | See Source »

Although it lacks the finesse of Damon Runyon's fables on the same theme, and although Robert Montgomery makes no effort to control his cuteness, Hide-Out is a likable little picture, full of sweetness, sincerity and scenes which should delight the Legion of Decency. Cleanest shot : Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan milking a cow whose udder is offscreen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...before it becomes bread upon the table; you will be reminded of a few items of cost. You say in France a pound-loaf of bread sold for 4½?. We say in America in some places a pound-loaf sold for 4? (see paragraph 2)-made in the cleanest bakeries and the highest wage scale in the world. (Note:-Shoes from Czechoslovakia, light globes from Japan, shirts from England, all sell below American prices. Are we seeking to hold the American Standard-or drop to the foreign level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...upon-Tyne against the condition in the crews' quarters of many ships. Professor Sir Thomas Oliver, 79, English authority on industrial diseases, declared that, due to insanitary quarters more sailors die of pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia and valvular heart disease than do landsmen. U. S. ships, said he, were cleanest in the world, British the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unsanitary Ships | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...When these men were being trained for overseas it was as sober soldiers in Dry cantonments. America tried to make total abstainers of every one. They went across to France the cleanest army that ever assembled on any field. A million maintained their American ideals, even in French cities. But some dropped down to another level. This is the crowd that seeks to dominate the Legion and our civilization." The Chicago chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union prayed for "our poor, deluded boys in Detroit. We must pray for them so that God. who works mysterious wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: At Detroit (Concl.) | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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