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...third noon, a gust of wind blew away the Prime Minister's manuscript, and he not only chased after it but was stooping with his back to the camera when "Big Ben" began again, "Clang . . . clang . . . clang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin & Ben | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...game with the Optimists. Harvard was given a two goal handicap and when E. T. Gerry '31 allied twice in the opening minutes it looked us if the Crimson team would capture the game easily. But Winston Gust, international star, led and Optimist change which Harvard was held scoreless, practically clinched the game. Captain F. A. Clark '29 led a Harvard rally in the final period but the Optimist lead was too large to overcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLO TRIO LOSES FINALS OF CLASS A COMPETITION | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Weather was gusty at Curtiss Field, L. I., last week when Pilot Emil Burgin of the Acosta Airplane Corp. taxied a Fokker monoplane for a takeoff. As she moved forward a gust from behind caught her wings, lifted her, flopped her over on her back. She was little damaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Somersaults | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...variance with existing psychological hypotheses. The divergence is bound to produce intellectual tensions that will catalyze thought and make possible an ultimate harmony. The analysts have provided one of the shocks that have jolted the old-school of intellectualizing introspectionists out of their sedentary preoccupations. Once more a gust of real air has brought life to a fading hothouse plant. They who remain unspotted by the world will never know the whole truth. Truth includes the spots. In some such way were Spencer's brilliant deductions about the customs of savages proved insufficient when men took the trouble to live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

Through the streets of London stirred a cold fuliginous fog. The King's coach, drawn by eight superb horses, moved gingerly. The Beefeaters from the Tower of London who marched beside it seemed like ghosts who now and again disappeared into a slowly rolling gust of fog. Ghostly, too, was the scant crowd which peered at the nearly invisible Royal procession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament Opened | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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