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Governor Townsend's airedale, an excitable and ambitious dog, chased a 'possum into a corn field and up an apple tree. Undaunted, the airedale jumped up to a crotch in the tree, followed the 'possum out on a limb and leaped to the ground after the 'possum. A little out of wind, the dog scrambled up, chased the 'possum, caught him and brought him back to the Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...posture and movement those unit masses of flesh and bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Posture Lady | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Shikat stood the Turk on his head, bounced him up & down. When, after 53 minutes of mauling, Shikat began to lose enthusiasm and the shoe polish from Baba's mustache dripped onto his hairy chest, the latter pinned Shikat with what Announcer Joe Humphreys identified as a flying crotch hold and body press. With this hold, Ali Baba became the fifth person in the U. S. currently claiming the World's Wrestling Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Benin are definitely superior in spirit and technique to other Negro art. Proudly last week in Manhattan the distinguished Knoedler Galleries put on display 31 objects which constituted the most important collection of Benin art ever exhibited in the U. S. Follow the Equator westward across Africa to its crotch where the Guinea coast joins the coast of the Cameroons. Just in that corner stood until the end of the 19th Century the ancient Kingdom of Benin. In 1486, six years before Columbus sailed to the west, Portuguese traders searching for pepper first entered the sacred city of Benin. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: City of Blood | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...Herald & Examiner, the pictures represented a notable scoop. City Editor John Dienhart had long had a standing order from hard-boiled Managing Editor Victor Watson for an electrocution picture. To the execution of Murderer Thompson he sent tall, personable Cameraman William Vandivert, with a candid camera concealed in the crotch of his trousers. Squatting on the floor in front of some 50 standing and kneeling witnesses behind a wire-mesh glass partition, Vandivert caught the writhing body, the contorted hands, the black-hooded face of Gerald Thompson, won for himself a small bonus, a smaller raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Death Pictures | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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