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...well that these women bore some resemblance to pioneers. Each one was a four-foot statue intended as a model for a 35-foot bronze statue to be called The Pioneer Woman and to be erected, at the expense of E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., near Ponca City, Okla. They had been touring U. S. cities so that those who saw them might say which one they liked the best. Last week George Marland, son to E. W. Marland announced that one of the twelve women had been selected for this honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pioneers | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...questions and cameras thrice as active as for any usual wedding in "high society." The simplest way to handle the situation seemed to be to let newspaperdom have its own way and the bride and groom did just that. They wandered around amiably before the reporters; posed beside the four-foot wedding cake Chef Hunter of the Stillman yacht was making; said, yes, their children would be Roman null since Lena was one; said, yes, they would go abroad a while; yes, then settle in Cambridge, Mass., while he studied medicine; yes, he was giving her a million dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nice People | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Indians use tobacco in various ways Four-foot cigars are passed about from one man to another much after the fashion of the North American peace pipe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FORBIDDEN CITY" VISITOR TO SPEAK | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...usually associated with girls in an international indoor pastime rather than in outdoor sports. Miss Aileen Riggin has altered the conception by winning the all-around senior aquatic championship of the country for women. In the past season she won the fancy diving championship (from a four-foot board), swam on the winning 400-yard relay team, and was runner up in fancy diving from a ten-foot board, and the free style swim at 100, 220 and 500 yards, the back stroke at 150 yards, and was third in the 50-yard free style. She is 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Mermaid | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...Florida squad of 23 players will arrive this morning and will work out in the Stadium early this afternoon preceding the regular University practice. Coaches Kline and Van Fleet are accompanying the squad as is Dr. A. A. Murphee, president of Florida University. A four-foot alligator is also being brought along as a mascot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESERVES TO MEET FLORIDA INVASION | 11/3/1922 | See Source »

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