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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golfer, thought of a putt. On a certain 19th green, with the smell of a Southern twilight enchanting her frequently photographed nostrils, Miss Collett had seen that putt obtain its velocity from the pendulum swing of Miss Frances Hadfield, travel in an unwavering line for 20 league-long feet, disappear, with a leisured imperiousness, into the hole, thus winning for Miss Hadfield a leg on the Belleair Heights golf championship (TIME, Mar. 16). As if the smell of that twilight, still lingering in the air, enraged her, Miss Collett, last week, swished around the St. Augustine course in 79, established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Collett | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

...Whenever the President paused, his last words were echoed from the Senate and House wings on both sides. Possibly it was irritation from this echo that caused Senator Cole Blease, newly elected from South Carolina, to walk down the stairs from the stand in his black sombrero and disappear before the President had finished. Halfway through, the President donned his glasses, but there were no other interruptions, save for applause, until the conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day of Days | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Shaw's ideas in the play were familiar. But Shaw knew his people must not be simply puppets of protest against a world's uncertainty. He made them flesh and blood; under the spell of a virtually flawless performance, they came poignantly to life. Ideas chip and disappear; emotion is a constant quantity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Musical | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

Captain L. I. Eagle and Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Miracle | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...extreme top; when the cloud has a positive charge negatively charged sand particles are scattered at the extreme top; and if the cloud has no charge, it is first charged one way, and then dispersed by attacking it with the opposite charge. The clouds immediately condense and disappear. if is possible, according to Professor Chaffee, for the Government to keep their large cities, landing fields, and harbors free from fogs and dense clouds, by using larger planes, which could scatter electrified sand at the rate of 100 pounds per minute, the maximum amount of sand which the planes now being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTRICALLY CHARGED SAND DISPERSES CLOUDS | 10/31/1924 | See Source »

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