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...plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family. Less stuffy folk than the Wallaces would be hard to find; they might say with Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...victory marked the opening of the 1942 home grid season, and when the whistle blew ending the game with the Freshmen ahead 14-12, hopes for future varsity elevens brightened considerably. The Yardlings had outfought, outrun, and outplayed their opponents in a decisive fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 Gridmen Roll Over Worcester 14-12 For First Victory In Two Season As Vander Eb Smashes Across Both Tallies | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Actor Noel Coward, attending a premiere in Toronto, Ont., advised: "There are many young playwrights who become utterly fascinated with the contents of the dictionary. They should learn to tell the story in as few and as short, simple words as possible. The sophisticated play never can hope to outrun the play best described as having simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 20, 1937 | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...shooting down four Japanese light bombers in one morning; Lieutenant Wong Sun-sui, age unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes. Said Lieutenant Wong: ''American-made pursuit planes can easily outrun Japanese bombers. Shooting them down is comparatively easy because Japanese pilots seem to be mesmerized as soon as they find an attacking plane behind them." Added General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Woodward hoped would prove the second U. S.-bred horse to win the Derby, or Lord Astor's Cash Book or the French colt Le Ksar. Still confident was the round, brown Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems, that this year his one entry would outrun the pack to give him three Derby victories in a row. Queen Elizabeth, however, bet ?1 on Mid-Day Sun, quoted at 100-to-7. Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been to place third at Newmarket this year in the Two Thousand Guineas race, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Known and Unknown | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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