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...omitted to say that Hob Shuler who received the Prohibition nomination would also be in the race: he ran on all three tickets and received over 300,000 votes, while McAdoo received 262,000 and Tubbs 204,000 and the papers are predicting he will win in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied crouches. The American Indian has raised the old Hob again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/8/1931 | See Source »

...economy alone had prompted the dismissal of the three professors. The proposed athletic plant would have to wait upon other more pressing needs. As for the dress rules, he said he had merely suggested, six years ago, that his students might wear something more refined than lumberjack shirts and hob nailed boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: W. & J. Walks Out | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...such announcements were made. But the Yale "House Plan'' which many think may play hob with traditional Yale institutions, was brought up once more (it was outlined for the first time on Alumni Day last year; TIME, March 3, 1930) and amplified in speeches by President James Rowland Angell and Professor Robert Dudley French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale into Eleven | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Innkeeper Malandrini, Lawyer Belotti or dour Priest Don Taddeo. The whole town turned itself into a fiesta, mass meeting, audience, riot. Chorus-girls were billeted everywhere; their sleepless generosity played hob with respectable burghers, set a fad that was followed even by hitherto respectable housewives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Like Dogs* | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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