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Twenty years have passed since Yale perched on top of the Intercollegiate track and field heap. Next Friday and Saturday at the Harvard Stadium, the Elis may annex their first title since 1904, in the opinion of experts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOPESTERS GIVE YALE POSSIBLE I. C. 4-A. WIN | 5/24/1924 | See Source »

...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 5, 1924 | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

...throat lair known (because of the scum that frequents it), as the Dust Heap, a stealer of women brings a supposedly half-breed female ward of a priest, under the transparent pretence that her guardian wants her. He turns her over to his French Canuck pal, who starts dragging her significantly up the stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 5, 1924 | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

...mantles. A gas flame does not affect it, but an electric arc may. The oxide does, however, shrink in volume at high temperatures. Thorium oxide has been utilized to make crucibles for holding molten platinum. The oxide itself was melted only in a hollow formed in a heap of its own powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Melted! | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...deputies, in terror of arrest with the lapse of their parliamentary immunity, fled in all directions. Deputy Thomas cropped his radical locks Hindenburg style, but was recognized by the police and only escaped by hiding in a coal heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 21 Parties | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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