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...planes will be put into flying condition, loaded with a weight equivalent to that of fuel, pilot and eight passengers and set adrift in the sea off Felixstone. The probabilities are that the plane will float for hours, thus reassuring the public that nothing but a few hours' discomfort would follow a plunge into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Adrift | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

Clean clear water has replaced the coffee-colored liquid that formerly filled the Big Tree swimming pool. The more regular but less particular patrons of the pool find discomfort in this new cleanliness, because on account of it their former seclusion has been intruded upon by hosts of clean water lovers. So many have found pleasure in the new luxury that the hours have been lengthened and beginning Monday the Big Tree pool will be open from 10.30 o'clock until 6 o'clock in the afternoon. At present the pool opens at 1.30 o'clock every afternoon. The water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG TREE, CLEAN AND CLEAR FINDS HOST OF EAGER USERS | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

Premier Poincaré, who is also Foreign Minister, sent police to view the offending scene, which was later suppressed to the great comfort of the British Ambassador but to the equally great discomfort of the Parisians who had found the scene extremely droll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: British Protest | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...obvious discomfort of Edward, but to the delight of all others, Mr. Harvey drew a comparison between the Prince who fought in France clad in black armor and the Prince who fought there in khaki; from that he proceeded to eulogize him as " the White Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The White Prince | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...accomplishing the same ends. A partial state of coma is induced in the patient by deep and rapid breathing; dizziness follows, and it is held that almost any part of the body may then be subjected to treatment that would ordinarily cause pain, without the slightest sensation of discomfort, and without any harmful after-effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEDICINE MEN | 2/5/1923 | See Source »

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