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...Chopin's nocturnes on the piano. He had studied music under Josef Hofmann's father, and his playing brought out Shakespeare's poetical qualities for his mother. Her leading man was the late Maurice Barrymore. His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel and John, would crawl on adolescent Ralph Modjeski's knees, and he would dandle them up and down. For theatrical reasons he was obliged to pretend being his mother's young brother, to him and her a distasteful hypocrisy. Engineering he studied at Paris's College of Bridges & Highways (where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bridge Builder Modjeski | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

From the four guns streamed a hundred bullets. Only eight of them ever reached the brick wall behind the seven targets. One man, all blood, tried to crawl away. A volley at six inches ripped away his head above the ears. The others toppled over into the careless postures of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...does seem as if the earth were the victim of a kind of heavenly conspiracy to make its crust crawl. Professor Stetson says that perhaps the stars, those eternal symbols of constancy, may be in the plot, too, allowing their rays to be deflected by an atmospheric tidal wave caused by the moon. Shifts in the axis of the earth, and tides in its crust are other possibilities, the scientists assure us, just like that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR MOBILE EARTH | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

...through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather. Tremendous winds blow there, influencing the weather of the entire Earth. Cold ocean currents start there, crawl along the ocean floors to the North Pole where they curve upward to cool the relatively warm North Polar waters. Whatever in the Antarctic regions can be seen, measured and studied by the expedition's staff, that will be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the South Pole | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard team had as little spirit and as little pride as some of the undergraduate body at Harvard, Yale could crawl to victory on its hands and knees. Fortunately for Harvard's pride, however, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

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