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...gentleman also crab when TIME printed, routinely and honestly, regrettable occurrences (divorces) in the eminently respectable and respected family of the President...
...second race, which included three Freshman crews and a pair of 150-pound crews, were no less startling than in the first row. The first 150-pound crew took an early lead which it held to within a hundred yards of the finish line, where it caught a crab. The first Freshman crew took up the lead here and held it for a half-dozen strokes, but they, too, caught a crab here and it was the second Freshman that was first across the line. One of the men in the third Freshman broke an oar near the start...
...Oriental Crab-Apples. It is difficult to write comprehensively about the oriental crabapples; there are so many of them and they are such a varied lot. In Asia the crab-apples behave in somewhat the same bewildering way as do the Hawthorues in this country; taken as a whole they form a complex assemblage, difficult to sort into such conventional pigconholes as species and varicitics. They probably hybridize in nature, they most certainly do in cultivation. Some are low shrubs, others are forest trees. Some bear fruits closely resembling the cultivated apple in size and shape, others have fruits...
Under the Sign of the Ram, the Bull, the Twins, the Crab and the Lion John Farmer toils and sweats through spring and summer from dawn to dusk. But under Virgo, when the sun slants toward its autumnal solstice, he lays down his tools and turns his thoughts to rest and fun. Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright...
...domestic market, astute politicians hasten to Washington, and, aided by Mr. Hearst, begin to invoke the deity of nationalism against the wicked and cunning Japanese. Yet despite their furor, figures for 1933 demonstrate that the only imports from Japan of any significance are raw silk, tung oil, and fancy crab meat...