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...with "driving through a crowd in a manner likely to endanger life and limb." She was held in $250 bail. Meantime, inside the jail the black flag was run up and the lifeless body of the Hindu doctor was cut down, buried in an open pit of unslaked lime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sweet Violet | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

While the official delegation is here, the attraction of public figures such as Roosevelt, Garner, and the like will momentarily draw the lime light away from the graduates and scholars that make up the bulk of the participants. But this should not change the character of the proceedings from a meeting of learned men to a stamping ground of political compaigners. The rigors of the presidential race will leave the field to scholarship once the official benediction has been bestowed. No one need fear that the Senate will break up the celebration by recognizing Harvard's historic significance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENATE RESOLUTION | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Unsuccessful in his original quest, since the Roosevelt boys were not at home, the versatile soft-drink magnate left quietly with his bodyguard. Yesterday, as a result of his gratitude, lime rickey, grape juice, and other beverages flowed freely in University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soft Drink Tycoon Regales University Hall With Lime Rickeys, Grape Juice | 4/18/1936 | See Source »

...have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level, dated at 4000 B. C. Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...bustling activity of the newly vivified little theatre, movement has passed through the "Phenomenon" stage into a rapidly crystallizing and tremendously promising phase of theatrical endeavor. The variously talented groups who for the past few summers have been turning New England barns into lime-lit slices of Broadway and the Village are now moving into serious winter activity in the cities. On the rising crest of this wave the Associated Actors Theatre has moved into the Peabody Playhouse to offer Boston a three week run of hitherto little known plays...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/16/1935 | See Source »

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