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Best shots: Chetoga's lonely vigil to appease the Manitou; the fall of a great pine, symbolizing Chetoga's death; un-faked closeups of deer, wolverines, 75,000 caribou; a bear and mountain lion fighting; the wolf pack trying to hamstring, then Baluk spearing, a bull moose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 26, 1930 | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

Water. Arizona, dissatisfied over water rights, has held out from the Boulder Dam compact. Last week at Reno, Nev., water commissioners from the six other interested states* met to evolve a compromise with Arizona, which has threatened otherwise to hamstring the whole development by prolonged litigation. At this Reno conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Week for Wilbur | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Up stood Michigan's Cramton to say: "It is interesting to me to see what the policy is to be of the wet block in the House as presented by its newly chosen leader, the gentleman from Maryland. The policy of our other friend from Maryland, John Philip Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Representative Debate | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

"Confidence, I asked the way to the next town, and was shown the road to 'Nelli's Aprin' the local metropolis, a village of 150 inhabitauts. I discovered that other settlements in te vicinity were named 'Skylight FiftySix', and Hamstring!".

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atlantic Ocean Doesn't Mean a Thing to the Hill Billies of Hawg Eye and Nellie's Apron--Ozark Sage a "Smart Un" | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

The Commons- ¶ I Upheld the Baldwin Conservative Government 338 to 152 in its watchful waiting policy of dealing with the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) which has reputedly cost the Empire to date a sum equivalent to $1,000,000,000. ¶ Heard Liberal leader Lloyd George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: The Week in Parliament Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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