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...squashed me into that seat so that my backbone bent and I groaned with the force of it. it drained the blood from my head and started to blind me. I watched the accelerometer through a deepening haze. . . . I was blind as a bat. I was dizzy as a coot. I looked out at my wings on both sides. I couldn't see them. I couldn't see anything. ... I could feel my guts being sucked down as I fought for sight and consciousness. . . . My eyes felt like somebody had taken them out and played with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Damn .Fool's Job | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

States have been rezoned. The season opens at noon Sept. 21, nine days earlier than last year (except in Alaska whose open season started Sept. 1) in Wisconsin, North Dakota and northern Idaho and ends Nov. 20. Other new zones with their dates for hunting duck, geese, coot and jacksnipe are as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Three Ducks Less | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...Author- Midwest Jeffersonian Democrat, with little sympathy for Adams' politics, Biographer Clark remarks: "He was such an interesting old coot I had a fine time writing his life" (TIME, Jan. 25). He reports that there have been fewer biographies of Adams "than of almost any great American." Disregarding James Truslow Adams' The Adams Family (TIME, June 16, 1930), of which he made no mention in his bibliography, he says his is the first biography of John Quincy Adams in 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man Adams | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...lightens several restrictions imposed last year, sets the following dates for hunting duck, geese, brant and coot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two Months' Ducking | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...satisfy sundry protests, Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde last week further modified the 1931 schedule of open seasons for hunting ducks, geese, brant and coot (TIME, Sept. 7), thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Duck Season Changes | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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