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...Texarkana, Tex., in 1912, Charles Settle's Leghorn hen laid torpedo-shaped eggs that tapered at both ends. On the basis of that hint he went on record as predicting a world war in two years. Last week one of Settle's Minorca hens laid torpedo-shaped eggs. Said Farmer Settle: "If another war doesn't break out within two years then my hen doesn't know her business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: War | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...embarrassed officials stated that they will have nothing to say about disposition of the bequest until "further investigations, consultations, etc. are completed." Wags compared the University to a proud but modest hen, couched on a whole nestful of golden eggs, firmly discouraging the query: "How come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Women in Public Affairs" Presents Quandary As Princeton Receives $25,000 Gift for Lectures | 3/16/1935 | See Source »

...love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Shorts | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

WHEN the Varsity polo team made its Chicago debut last weekend it was to defeat the Fort Sheridan riders 6-5 1/2 in a game which was touch-and-go until the final whistle. Before a crowd of 11,000 spectators the Harvard trio, Towny Winmill, Hen Gerry, and Captain Tommy Davis demonstrated that they had the winning combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 3/9/1935 | See Source »

...something that sends shivers down the back and saps all the energy in the body. Did you ever see a hen with pip? Her wings are drooped, her feathers ruffled, her head hangs down . . . her cackle is gone, her eyes are watery. . . . She is sick all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lifer Hoover | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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