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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Queen Mary briefly stuck crosswise in the river on which she was built, Britain's funnypaper, Punch, pictured a barge in similar predicament whose crestfallen helmsman called to the captain, "Don't forget, Cap'n, the same thing happened to the Queen Mary." With Cunard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britannia Mocks the Waves | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

What Batsman Hutton had done, no Britisher had ever done before: in the fifth and last Test match with Australia he had scored 364 runs in one innings-and this at a time when English cricket seemed deader than "The Ashes" for which they were playing.-* The new record for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triple Century Plus | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Those who witnessed Batsman Hutton's prodigious whacking at Kennington Oval last week will hand the story down to future generations: how it took the best Australian bowlers three days to get him out; how he was at bat 13½hours, ran 6½ miles; how the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Triple Century Plus | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In the Business District | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Students will usher food through every step from field to table, learn to sweep floors, write advertisements, calculate profit & loss. They will study also the science of food: what makes bread rise, what makes beer. When they go to school each morning, students will first take a shower, then don...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Food School | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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