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In the final of last week's Men's Singles, aggressive, lefthanded, 22-year-old Jimmy McDaniel and fleet-footed, keen-minded, ay-year-old Reginald Weir put on the best tennis performance that has been seen in Jim Crow tournaments since Negroes first learned to play the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Keen-minded, acidic, Albert Enoch Pillsbury was long known as one of Boston's ablest legal minds. He had entered Harvard in 1867 (among his classmates were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Bishop William Lawrence, Charles Joseph Bonaparte). Unwary hazers remembered his stocky, undaunted figure: once he beat them off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Male | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

On Aug. 3, Justice Joseph Force Crater of the New York State Supreme Court was with his wife at their summer home in Maine. It was vacation-time for him; his court would not sit again until Aug. 25. But on Aug. 5 he unexpectedly appeared at his official chambers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lost Judge | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

In prospect, therefore, is a storehouse of all knowledge, a service station to all puzzled learners. Keen-minded citizens saw in so vast a plan no little nobility, some little obscurity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Mean | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Whither? The direction of the Treaty step is what interests keen-minded U. S. citizens. Will it lead Europe away from the League of Nations and into a new world harmony? Will it assist Candidate Hoover to lead his and Mr. Kellogg's party on to Victory? Why are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Triumph of Kellogg | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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