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...sword poised, feet together, to administer the estocado to a brave bull. Over the wicked horns his curving blade went, to miss by a hair's breadth the two-inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Double Play | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...York Herald Tribune devotes a section to pet fish. One week it is guppyis, the next, Siamese fighters, the next, Black Mollies. Last week the headline read : SALT FOUND EFFECTIVE REMEDY FOR MANY ILLS OF TROPICAL FISH Beneath appeared a picture of ''A pearl danio, showing the hump-backed appearance sometimes developed by old specimens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fish Story | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...Pecora, Senate Banking & Currency Committee counsel, pretended to believe that the opponents of stockmarket regulation still had a chance of working their will against the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and country. Therefore, as if to wither them with one last blast and put the control bill over the Congressional hump, he flung out to the Press what the New York Times called "an armful of raw and bleeding figures." The figures were an unanalyzed summary of brokers' profits since 1927. Counsel Pecora knows how to give a sinister twist to any stated sum, particularly if it runs into nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brokers' Profits | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 2, 1934 | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...front and high behind instead of high in front, tapering behind. The new De Soto is an approach to the sweeping curve of a tear drop. Its front mounds up in a smooth curve over the engine, with headlights and other gadgets embedded in its solid structure. The hump of the tonneau is in the centre rather than at the rear of the car. The engine is over, not behind, the front axle. The rear seat is moved forward some 20 inches from its old place on top of the rear axle to slope off the body. The front seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cock of 1933 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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