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...went fishing for lions two years ago and I learnt the art from Martin Johnson, who has used this method for a good many years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...love with an older man whom she meets at a summer resort. He tries to believe their relation is platonic, but when, overborne with passion, she comes to give herself to him, he is disgusted and dismayed, shows her as gently as possible her mistake. "In after years ... he learnt that she spoke of him with evident animosity as of one who had done her a grievous wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money & Other Troubles | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...monuments," could he have suspected that one of the monuments would be valued no years later at $308,000,000. For in 1802 son Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours began concocting friable messes of gunpowder in a squat stone house on Brandywine Creek, Delaware. Son Eleuthere Irenee had learnt his chemistry from Lavoisier.* clarified, refined, improved his formulae, passed them through to great-great-grandson Lammot du Pont, eighth president of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Friable Messes | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...took a walk all around the town investigating maters and petted a beautiful black pussey who as soon as I went away would run after me untill I peted her. I saw a sculptor shop. Learnt bible verses. We then played with boats on a pond with the commerce of stones for myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Investigator | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Hutchinson's school days were spent at Gresham's School, Holt, a few miles from the Norfolk coast, and his holidays in Cumberland amongst the lakes. In such ideal surroundings it is hard to conceive where he learnt Socialism, but a Socialist he is; the fact constantly appears in his speeches and conversation. He is always running away on a bicycle or in a Ford to address mass meetings in the Midlands, or to stir up the lazy villagers of Cambridgeshire to take a greater interest in the running of their country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intimate Biographies Disclose Diversified Interests of English Debating Team Members | 10/5/1926 | See Source »

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