Search Details

Word: finding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...scheduled by Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Harvard has invited Purdue and Indiana to play at Cambridge next fall and Ohio State will play at Princeton. While Harvard probably will not care to return to Lafayette and Bloomington in 1928 because of the small gate receipts. Princeton ought to find that no reason for not being, willing to play at Ohio State in 1928. In fact, such a game would draw the biggest crowd that ever saw a Princeton team play, for the Ohio State stadium is larger by 80,000 seats than the Princeton and Harvard stadiums and larger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...quarter million, and that was why Senator Reed cited him for contempt. The penalty for this offense varies from one month to one year in jail, plus a fine. But Mr. Insull is in no immediate danger of entering a cell. First the Senate must find him guilty of contempt; then he can still carry his case to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contempt? | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...Grand Duke Nikolai,* the Grand Duke Cyril,* Prince Felix Youssoupov, and other pre-eminent Russian emigres well know where to find many a gem and golden ruble buried and hidden by themselves before they fled Russia. Recently Prince Dolgorukovo, relatively small aristocratic fry, entered Russia in disguise to retrieve some of his buried treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dolgorukovo | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...freshman is in this unsettled emotional state we have a look at his internal mechanism. And just before he steps up to the fluoroscope, we heighten the effect by springing a booby trap on him - a loose board that makes a loud bang. In that emotional condition we find that his stomach has crawled up the length of several vertebrae. A year later, as a sophomore, we find his stomach back in place, where it ought to be. When you hear a woman describe her fright by saying, 'My heart came right up in my mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Barometric Cadavers | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...MOREL-Karen Bramson- Greenburg ($2). A better book to pop into a steamer basket would be hard to find. Though the material is of the general warp and woof of which detective yarns are tailored there is positively no detecting but a great deal of sure suspense. Dr. Morel, "fashionable specialist" to feminine Paris, is no Dr. Jekyll who turns crudely into a Mr. Hyde by taking mysterious drugs. Rather he is a Jekyll-Hyde, a suave seducer and experimenter with the mortal coil. His undoing is his better self. The theme of a bad man unable to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | Next