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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dally with venomous snakes take good care to defang them. "Wrong, very wrong. The crude, untutored Hindu may resort to this expedient, but it is not done in professional circles among American snake experts. You will note that I use the more dignified term-"experts." We resent the name "fakirs." We study the nature of our snakes and it is not necessary to "defang" them, not at all. You will note that I place myself among the "experts." Thirty years experience among the rattlers. A good line that? And I never had to "defang" one, except on special order from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Push & Scamper | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...about 30, 5 feet 6, weight 150, with light brown hair. Dr. Kovacs was taken to the Haymarket Relief Hospital in our Ambulance and treated for 2 lacerated wounds of the scalp. The man wanted left the office with a bandage on his left ankle and his name is thought to be John King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery Shrouds Discovery of Gymnasium Blue Prints Left With Victim of Assault--Plans Stolen From Contractor | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

University authorities declined last night to release the name of the course in which this unusual departure occurred for fear that the fact that the vagabond secured a satisfactory grade for his three hour participation might unduly swell the rolls next year. But shrouded in silence as the details of this outbreak of Romanticism must be, brightly shines the moral of the tale; even in the twentieth century a vagabond may be King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vagabond King Makes Debut in Striking Exposure of Exam Mechanism--Passing Grade Rewards Three Hour Session | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

...unctuously, but boldly, Rudolph Spreckels explained: "The new company will be controlled by me personally, and I have permitted my name to be used as an assurance to the public that I have faith in the future of the company and intend to assume full re sponsibility for its management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Spreckels Sugar | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...stern, a Sea Sled inverts the V, also flattens toward the stern. Both are built to slide along the surface rather t h a n t o p l o u g h t h r o u g h t h e w a t er. *A name derived from electric launch comp a n y, h o l d i n g c o m p a n y o f E l c o

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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