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When they had continued waving their arms for several hours, Vag realized the young men were members of the ROTC. Of course--they wore brown pants and high topped shoes. And they stood very straight in their undershirts in the rain. They looked well conditioned. "Mens sano in corpore . . ." Vag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/22/1942 | See Source »

When she began writing, her mother-in-law insisted, "I no believe the womens can write. If all were known, you find the mens write those books for them." Gertrude Atherton spent the next half-century defying the mens and her mother-in-law. Literature, like the stage, was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thanks to X-Ray | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

The most fundamental drawback to the plan is the fact that there is, at present; no trophy. If "athletics for all" is to be furthered, some kind alumnus must donate a trophy whose slight cost would be infinitesimal compared to the good it would do in spurring each Harvard undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIRITS FROM A CUP | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Martin Sr. believes in the mens sana in corpore sano. So does Martin Jr., who as a boy had a violent temper, would some times smash his golf clubs. But as his game improved, so did his self-restraint.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Mr. Chocolate | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

In furtherance of "something new" Poets Auden and MacNeice wind up their book by collaborating on a unique Last Will and Testament in which they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets' Account | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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