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Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. makes such peaceful things these days as fuses, washers, buttons, switches, dish-washing machines, but still makes the pistol once famed as Judge Colt, advertised now as "the World's right arm." It also turns out the Thompson Sub-Machine Gun, used by many a police department. A submachine gun can fire 300 shots a minute, costs $175 to $200. Last year Colt earned $103,000 against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Winchester & Western | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) was born in a Mecklenburg parsonage, apprenticed to a grocer at 14 after a sketchy schooling. Business was Heinrich's dish; he prospered so exceedingly that soon he was supporting his family, writing them how they were to behave. Business took him all over Europe, to the U. S. (he made a small fortune in California, became a U. S. citizen), to Russia, where he lived many years and made a disastrous first marriage. Schliemann's hobby was languages. At 33 he spoke 15 tongues but was concentrating on ancient Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold-Digger* | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Your critic speaks of the "many ponderous plums" which can be "pulled out of this (my) heavy Teutonic pudding." I like plum pudding but I always thought that it was an English, not a Teutonic dish. His description of me "thick-spectacled, thick-lipped and thick-nosed" wounds my Narcissism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...Boston "flaring like a dreary dawn" beckon him over the river to while away the evening hours. In the course of his peregrinations intellectual needs often give way to the more physical delights of food and nourishment. The old fellow has happened upon many an interesting and delectable dish in various victual houses far from the madding crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/12/1931 | See Source »

...avenue, with the hospital at the right end as you enter and dormitory quadrangles opening off the left end, beyond the long double row of lecture halls, library, students' union, auditorium. Behind the chapel is the stadium. All is modern, thoroughly equipped, efficient. In the students' union are shiny dish-washing and potato-peeling machines. In the theatre is the latest cinema for 150. The stadium seats 35,000. Architect of the whole scene is Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia, who frankly and freely drew upon the best features of Oxford and Cambridge for his inspiration. The net result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Carolina Forest | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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