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...automobile, a Ford sedan, suddenly swung from the curb, where it was parked at 9:00 o'clock yesterday morning, forcing three cars to swerve aside to avoid a crash. The runway vehicle then proceeded to roll down Quincy Street and smashed into a four-foot post on the opposite side of the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUNAWAY FORD PRECIPITATES PAST FRESHMAN, INTO FENCE | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

Miss Arnold climbed up on the four-foot stool inside the booth, and then coudn't get down. "There wasn't room to jump," she said. "If you've ever climbed on top of a stool in a Radcliffe telephone booth, you know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CO-ED ENMESHES SELF IN TELEPHONE BOOTH | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Blooming by day in the Radcliffe, Yard, but modestly retiring into a cellar at five o'clock every day, a four-foot tulip has been amazing passersby. This horticultural marvel, is, however, only a department store creation, built up from wire and paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREAKISH FOUR-FOOT TULIP ASTONISHES ALL RADCLIFFE | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

...purification, this seine was dragged through the waters of the Singatoka River by women and boys. When the net had been drawn in a small circle in shallow water, the tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front of the caudal fin. Thereupon each ugly shark went rigid, was put ashore never to move again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Kiss Fishing | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...throat and choked her. . . . Evidently the Negro thought her screams had been heard. He turned her loose and jumped out of the car. She got back into the car and locked all four doors. When she started her motor he jumped on the running board of her car and threatened to kill her if she didn't stop. In utter desperation she took a four-foot embankment, almost overturning the car but ridding it of her assailant. ... So much for the facts which you pass over with the words "charged with jumping on the running board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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