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The Harvard University Register has never been like the Freshman Red Book or the Senior Album, "a thing of beauty and a joy forever", with tooled leather covers, photographs of hundreds of fresh young faces, and a solace in boredom. There is little pleasure in looking up the numbers after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT YOUR SERVICE | 3/10/1927 | See Source »

Fifty Manhattan Roman Catholics climbed about a United Fruit steamer in New York Harbor last week and kissed an amethyst ring. It was on the thick powerful finger* of a medium-sized cask of a man, whom two Mexican "very, very courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diaz, from Mexico | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

"She and her mother told each other stories, sang songs together and discussed the little affairs that came their way as they sat and rocked and knitted or as she ironed put handkerchiefs on her own small ironing board, while mother was doing some of the larger pieces. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two Little Girls | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

Last week a steamship from South America docked in Manhattan and certain matters tof fact were learned from a prosaic, weatherbeaten man on crutches who came ashore. He was Lieut. James H. Doolittle, U.S.A., test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Eurasian Route | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Practice varies about pointing and crying out. Some hold that these trimmings make "Babbitt" more exhilarating. The original Babbitt-George F.-as created by Author Sinclair Lewis, possessed the following: Head-large, pink, heavy. Hair-brown, thin, dry. Nose-Sloping, blunt, heavy spectacle-dented. Chin-overfleshed, strong. Cheeks-pads. Hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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