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...Santa Monica, Calif., swimming about in the surf, Albert Fuchs managed to catch with his hands and lug ashore a ten-pound, live silver-bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team passed by. The hungry trainload confiscated its provender. Rescuers brought food and medicine by horse and hand sleighs. Finally the blizzards subsided. Three engines managed to break through the drifts and help the first three lug the typhoid victims to hospitals. Only one patient died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Birth Control | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...LUG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said they should decline tips and make the company pay the difference, and more than the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Porters | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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