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...backyard, like a detective on the trail of colonial history. His blunt fingers run over the surface, ivory with age, tracing arcs and circles cut 300 years ago. "They didn't have rulers. They did everything by compass." Another beam reveals a row of auger holes, evidence of a hayrack. "Too low for horses," declares the Sherlock Holmes of barns. "Sheep, undoubtedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New England: A Barn Is Reborn | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...black markets thrive everywhere. When military police decided to check all vehicles entering Seoul on the chance that they might be stolen or contain stolen parts, a near famine resulted. All the truckers who had been carrying food into the city promptly hid their vehicles under the nearest hayrack, leaving Seoul to starve until the MPs cooled off. Last week, adulterated whisky was selling for $20 a bottle on Seoul's black markets. On the other hand, G.I. pants (worth $15) could be had for as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Springtime in Seoul | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

After the sunburn of the day handling a pitchfork at a hayrack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Champagne & Cornbread | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...plank platform: How can Congress be improved? Unless Congress stops playing politics and buckles down to its job, he thinks, the war may be longer, the peace might be botched. One night last week friends of Mr. Buell's came to his house in Richmond in a hayrack, carried him down to the Town Hall. There, in the intermission of a barn dance, Mr. Buell made a pre-campaign speech-a speech which, because it touched not on local issues but on the whole meaning of Congress today, had implications far beyond Massachusetts' First District. In a tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: WHY BE A CONGRESSMAN? | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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