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...frantic wire to Mr. Morse revealed that for want of a name the mummies hadn't the ghost of a chance of getting into Plymouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Score Indians Discard Identity to Enter Cambridge--Pay Half Fare and Pass Customs as "Old Bones" | 1/5/1928 | See Source »

...sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. Hooked stick is shorter this year, limited to 53 inches, instead of 60. Overtime allowance has been cut from 20 to 10 minutes. Abolished are penalty free shots. There are other minor changes. Otherwise the professional hockey season opened last week to frantic crowds in U. S. and Canadian cities much as it closed last April when Ottawa won the world's championship from Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey Begins | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Leaving Philadelphia to keep a promise, he darted toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lindbergh Honored | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...BEGINNERS-Henry Kitchell Webster-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Edward Patterson, 45, married, father of Edith and Edward, suddenly breaks with a frantic gesture out of the insurance business by means of which he has been supporting his family in good style. Eagerness for variety makes him go so far as to try to sell a mechanical device for automobiles. Poor returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beginners | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...every Senior. Caps and gowns were cast aside, and the oldest possible clothes were worn. It was every man for himself, and the struggles were tremendous. Sometimes men grouped together, and on the shoulders of four husky men stood one light one, snatching enough flowers for all, while frantic classmates tackled the big men and yanked the small one's shirt from his back ... And now, in this soft age, men merely pelt confetti at their girls, and are pelted in return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition Is Young Idea, Not Musty Growth, at University | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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