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...baseball game is as entertaining as the past CRIMSON-Lampoon ones have been. I'll never forget the number of times I've ridden an old bicycle to those annual diamond debates of the editors, through all kinds of weather and in every condition. In days gone by, a keg of beer used to liven up these ball games, and nowadays I miss it. The kegs used to sit right out in the middle of the field, and at the access of any player or players at all times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Sergeant Thinks Harvard and Princeton Men Are Too Rough--Recalls Crimson-Lampoon Contests of Old Days | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

...Detroit, one Edward Herring, 50, walked near the river to catch a breath of fresh air. He hesitated for a moment in front of the Superior Smoked Fish Co. Down plunged a keg of pickled herrings from a third-story window sill, felled Mr. Herring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Cow | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...chest may be considered to be a keg of two compartments (pleural cavities), each containing a lung. As each lung expands, it fills its compartment; as it contracts, it leaves a void. Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues. If one lung could cease its transference of oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lungs Squeezed | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...fine August morning in 1925, the Danish Admiralty came to a decision: a keg of indigestible dynamite is to be placed in the cast iron belly of the U20 so that the little weasel of the sea may sink in agony and lie far down in the green waters with the other little devils of the deep. No more need man-made leviathans fear death from its speeding projectiles nor its own broken and scaly body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: For the Gander | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...Elliott headquarters hastened the reporter. In his mind burned a vision of inextinguishable deviltry-pirates, in look-me-over clothes and patent leather pumps, dicing for stock certificates upon a keg of dynamite. Instead, he found the Elliott sales force met together for a sing-song and smoker. They were mostly young men, dapper but demure. A fake, the Phonofilm Corporation? Why, they told the reporter, President Coolidge himself knew of it. Sure enough, the investigator beheld a phonofilm of the sharp-faced President, on the White House lawn, reading a speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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