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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning your statement [TIME, Dec. 9] re Carnegie that she did not carry one ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard of her I may draw your attention to the fact that although it was possible to construct the ship out of nonmagnetic material it yet was not possible to keep all magnetic material from aboard her. All canned goods carried by the Carnegie carried a certain amount of magnetism in the cans in which they were preserved and for this reason these goods were carried in the after part of the ship while the earth inductor with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Accordingly this demonstration will be held today. Outsiders will not be admitted. The Harvard squad will go through the various holds, counters, breaks, and so forth; the coaches and officials will then hold open discussion and draw up a standard set of regulations by which all will abide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING OFFICIALS MEET IN CONFERENCE | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...When the Master . . . walks past you, lift your hat to him as you do to a lady or when passing a coach and four. . . . Don't ask him where he expects to draw. . . . Where he intends hounds to draw is his and his huntsman's affair, and not yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxcatcher Don'ts | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...What will become of Albert and François?" Frenchmen asked each other last week with sympathetic little shrugs, hoped the answer of Fate would not be too hard. The two old servants were Georges Clémenceau's valet and chauffeur. His last act was to draw their hands to his lips and kiss them, just before he said: "I want no women and I want no tears! Let me die before men" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beaux Gestes | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Photographer Steichen was born in Milwaukee in 1879, son of a copper miner and a milliner. His boyhood was spent doing odd jobs. He was the first bicycle messenger in Milwaukee. Because he liked to draw and had bought a camera with his savings, he was apprenticed at 15 to American Lithographing Co., where, for three dollars a week, he washed spittoons, swept floors. Soon he was drawing advertisements. Most famed was his large poster of a voluptuously reclining lady with the legend, "Cascarets; they work while you sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Steichen* | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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