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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest show on earth now presents for your kind approval the only lady in the world who can do a triple play with no men on in the first and Cobb at bat. With nothing up either sleeve (she's careless that way) the little lady will now perform this greatest and only performance of its kind. Rest your eyes upon...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

...another." Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that the present flood is the greatest in the history of the Mississippi, hating the thought of herding into refugee camps, they cling to their homes and threaten to add great loss of life to the other disasters of the flood. One farmer is said to have been "rescued" six times from a flooded home to which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Continued | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...Greatest Catastrophe." Few U. S. citizens appeared to realize the extent of the flood disaster. During the last fortnight, indeed, the flood did not enjoy a "good press." The Snyder-Gray trial and the Lindbergh transatlantic flight elbowed it onto the inside pages of many a newspaper. Nevertheless, observers united in terming it the greatest of peacetime national catastrophes of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Continued | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...water, or harnessing lightning, they would have rejected it with general approval. Fifty years ago if anyone had offered Harvard $1,000,000 for the study of flying he would have been told, 'You must not make this great unversity ridiculous.' Eugenics in days to come will be the greatest, most important of all sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jumping At Conclusions | 5/28/1927 | See Source »

Next to the surprise caused by Spencer's failure to lead his heat in the quarter, perhaps the greatest upset provided by yesterday's batting was the elimination of Anderson of Cornell in the shot put. An unheralded Bates runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY UPSETS MARK FIRST OF I. C. 4A. COMPETITIONS | 5/28/1927 | See Source »

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