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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectacularly Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams, crack airman, served the U. S. Navy for 13 years. Spectacularly he made his exit last week, having resigned in protest against sea-assignment (TIME, April 21). Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Inverted Leaf | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...above dispatch received by the CRIMSON last night is the first news that has been received of the famous CRIMSON prognosticator since his hurried exit from Cambridge last fall following the football season. After querying the Oriental sage by wire the CRIMSON was assured by its cooney observer that he would be out of jail and forecast the Kentucky Derby for his Harvard and Cambridge followers tomorrow and that he would also decree the way the crews will finish in the four-cornered regatta on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra! Extra! Extra! | 5/16/1930 | See Source »

...greater part of this furor deserves a quick exit with no curtain calls. There is, however, a question of morals which is outside of all legality and upon which the most recent champions of the Scrubwomen stand. In Pome short moment when the crusading ardor is not all-powerful, "The Harvard Square Deal Association" might be reminded that any question of morality inevitably means a moral issue, not an absolute moral truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SQUARE DEAL AT HARVARD | 5/2/1930 | See Source »

University of Michigan prom trotters were under the surveillance of policemen stationed at every exit, in each smoking room and lobby of the gymnasium, lest some reveller take a drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outbursts | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paisley's Hogmanay | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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