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...would give a bad impression if printed in the magazine." After considerable argument Gruin was allowed to take two shots, carefully outlined before snapping. Then, for a firsthand view of the area where Chinese and Mongolian troops had been having a border fracas, they trucked across the gravel wasteland north of Tihua to Peitashan, a mountain oasis. Of this journey, Gruin wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...accommodate 1250 automobiles, which "is way over expected demand" according to Student Council investigator John K. Lally '49. It has been newly surfaced with cinders and gravel by the H.A.A. and, says Lally, "is in excellent condition for parking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cars May Get Home in 12 Cents Per Month Lot | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

When they reach a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom, the mated pairs dig a shallow nest by moving the stones with their suckers. Then male and female attach themselves side by side to a large stone. As soon as the eggs are fertilized, the adult lampreys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Deadly Kiss | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...When gravel-voiced Sportcaster Clem McCarthy describes a horse race, his hearers often get the feeling that his breathless brays are coming straight from the horse's mouth. Last week he described the end of the Preakness like this: "AND it's Jet Pilot in the lead by a head. . . . AND it's Jet Pilot by a neck. . . . It's Jet Pilot by half a length. ... Jet Pilot by a length . . . Jet Pilot!" A moment later, through the roar of the crowd was heard a shattered mutter: "What am I talking about?" Then solemnly: "Ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Handicapper | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...dictionary calls it "a catarrhal affection of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract," and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the only cure for it "is six feet of gravel, taken externally," but all these unfortunates cursed with hay fever know that it is one damn nuisance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sneezers Writhe As Posies Bring Seasonal Malady | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

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