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Getting away to an early lead the husky schoolboys kept the Crimson first-year men on the defensive throughout a hard fought contest. Ticknor, Milton star, and his team-mate Upton, six foot, five center, cooperated on a gruelling offense, setting too fast a pace for the Freshman tossers. Both men are high point scorers for Milton, and made four and six goals respectively in yesterday's game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RANCY MILTON QUINTET TAKES MEASURE OF 1930 FIVE BY SCORE OF 25-17 | 1/22/1927 | See Source »

...progress. Sex, he thinks, becomes of less importance and civilization attains maturity. By artificially living longer we are doing something quite out of the range of the other animals. Thus, homo sapiens leaves his competitors far behind in the race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about a bit, and die. The former survive many generations of men. They are born, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOY GREW OLDER | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...down the nomination of Charles B. Warren for Attorney General. A cartoon of Mr. Dawes, to be used in case of his absence. Two dolls, "Helen" and "Maria." A steel-shafted driver, a duplicate of the one which Mr. Dawes frequently borrows from his golfing mate, Col. Edwin A. Halsey. A bouquet for Mrs. Dawes, who smiled happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...steel-shafted driver, a duplicate of the one which Mr. Dawes frequently borrows from his golfing mate, Col. Edwin A. Halsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Thus Bernard Mead, timber magnate of Pauquette, Wis. There comes a day when, surrounded by his female relatives, including his spinster aunts, querulous mother, prolific wife and lusty offspring, he begins talking wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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