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...hewed a stone from native granite. That was 18 years ago when he was 73. Since the Grim Reaper continued to elude him, Mr. Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill and shovel the earth over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...time, and it seems that some pacifist organization asked President Eliot to appeal to the American President to try and stop the war. This President Eliot refused to do, and I always liked his answer. 'The English people have often gotten themselves into scrapes and they usually manage to crawl out of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANON SCOTT STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF LEAGUE | 10/13/1925 | See Source »

...When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shenandoah | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...writers. Their knives flicker in bad doorways. Their shapes are seen outlined against a gibbous moon, while they scurry over city roofs at night, or swing down a silk rope-ladder to their victim's window. They are carried up hotel elevators in packing cases; they train cobras to crawl through the speaking-tubes of limousines and bite their enemies on the lip; but the type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering some all-night chop-suey restaurant, firing six or seven shots, and departing, while the proprietor splutters out his life upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tong | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Australian crawl is the fastest stroke known, and when Mrs. Coolidge learns this she will be able to cut through the water in great shape. She likes to swim, she enjoys the water and yields easily to suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

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