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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rivaling the incredibility of the Wessels-hen (see above) is the Hilturnip. This turnip, located on the farm of one T. G. Hill, near Corpus Christi, Tex., grew up in a cabbage patch. Responding to environment, it swelled larger, larger, larger. Finally it reached a diameter of 25 inches, a weight of 12 pounds. Civically proud, the Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce placed the Hill turnip on exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...their vacation to celebrate Easter as well as Patriot's Day. How seldom it is that indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIND OF SPRINGTIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

...that composer was perhaps the first, frankly to use cacaphony in the modern sense. Not that he was unable, as many modern composers seem to be to write most beautiful melodies, yet certainly in such works as "Ein Heldenleben", he points the way to the modern "realistic" tendency. Professor Hill will give the lecture at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...exploits of such men as Harriman, Hill and others in spreading the network of steel which today so closely binds the various parts of the nation together are the tales of true pioneers. These men followed a dream and there are others today and have been in the intermittent time who have trudged steadily along in the same pursuit. But the romance has not been the only phase, and "le revers de la medaille" is equally enthralling. Legislation aplenty has been let loose by the advent and enormous growth of the railroads, by no means least among which stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/12/1927 | See Source »

...noon, the Vagabond will make his way to the Music Building to hear Professor Hill talk on Brahms. Ever since last year, when he heard the Glee Club sing some of Brains' love songs and his Requiem, he has had a desire to know more of that composer who certainly belied his reputation for being "academic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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