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...Ears differ in detecting pronunciations, but it may safely be said that "enj'yment" is preferred in rural New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Football authorities differ as to the advisability of the now ruling. William J. Bingham 16, Director of Athletics, is among those who feel the "dead fumble" rule will rob the game of one of its biggest thrills. On the whole, however, opinion seems to favor this new evidence of the present tendency to sacrifice the spectacular in football in the interests of greater precision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUMBLES RECLASSIFIED | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

Brother Lammot?tall and serious?his hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's, his laugh is quiet, almost silent, but unlike Pierre's his interests are few and confined. Pierre crusades, but not Lammot. Pierre has conservatories; Lammot, conservatism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: G. M. C.'s Chair | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Whether or not this method in operation at Harvard bears immediate fruit in the so-called "brain tests" is an impossible question to determine; results are likely to differ with each individual student. If, however, this is in any way likely, as the Yale News seems to believe, the Harvard system would bear watching during the course of the next few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TIME 18 ITSELF AN ELEMENT" | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

...ball either or both of two loose-balanced wickets which it is the batsman's business to defend. When one of the batsmen knocks the ball away from his wicket, he may exchange places with the other batsman, thus scoring a run. The procedure of scoring does not greatly differ from that used in two-old-cat; but cricket is unique among all games for profound, untechnical and subtle reasons. Its rhythm, the pace at which its climaxes are reached and at which they disappear, is slower than anything except the growth and decay of empires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cricket | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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