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Courtesy to His Majesty, rise, glide three steps to the right, courtesy to Her Majesty, rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Final Courts | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Friday afternoon they headed into a gale. Ice began to cover their vessel; wind heaved it roughly about. Darkness was coming on; their benzine was almost gone. So they dipped in a cautious glide toward the earth's surface, not knowing whether below the fog's bed was land or water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Dublin to Labrador | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...permitted to maintain a "cultural influence" in the German-speaking areas of Alsace-Lorraine, he rapped: "We do not attempt to intervene in Belgium, Switzerland or Canada, on the pretense of protecting the French language or traditions in those countries. And we shall not permit foreign influence to glide into the administration of our own domestic affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Young Alsace' | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Muscular Anesthesia. In rowdy secret society initiations the novice, standing rigidly erect, arms at sides, is made to inhale very deeply and hold his breath. As his face grows red and his eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Soon the Columbia developed engine trouble, was forced to glide down into a field gashed by a deep ditch. The ditch fouled the landing gear, tripped the plane which then buried its nose in the ground, its engine wrecked, its wings twisted. Miraculously, no one was injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Levine in Italy | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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