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...team Major Sargent has selected to face the Yale malletmen is composed of: Bennett Forbes at number one, Ben Dillingham at number two, and Warwick Stabler or Cain Burrage at defense. This lineup is not the strongest stringers, Gay Dillingham and Pate Rumsey, are on the sick list. Major Sargent explained the seriousness of the loss when he said that the absence of one man on a three-man polo outfit is like the loss of four men to a football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Rule Favorite in Second Polo Game With Crimson at 9:30 O'Clock Tonight in Armory | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...iron chamber. Like a tiny globular elevator in some vast, unpartitioned building, it rises through the water. From its top swirl several strands of seaweed which have twined themselves in the lifting chain with friendly tentacles, and which now hang loose like sparse hairs on the otherwise bald pate of the diving bell. A swirl of the dark current and these few strands, looking grayish in the gloom, drift away, leaving the head completely scalped. From the bottom of the chamber sprouts a sticky brown-black beard which runs up the side several feet--a beard of ooze and slime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...Wednesday evening a strong Brown swimming contingent succeeded in shattering a Crimson winning streak that had extended to twenty-eight meets, and the audience of mostly Brown supporters that packed the pool balcony in the Indoor Athletic Building went properly berserk with joy. Bruin Coach Leo Barry's bald pate glistened with glory as he cavorted in the pool after his team had celebrated the victory by the traditional coach-ducking rite. George Gibbons, Bob Schaper, and Matt Soltysiak, the Bruin heroes, were mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REFLECTIONS AT LOW TIDE | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

Rare is the celebration or exposition which, when held, is not claimed as "my idea originally" by a camp following of crack-pate "inventors." Rarer is the inventor who actually did have the idea and, rarer still, got paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Fair Idea | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Besides its line of hearty staples, Charles began to stock delicacies high of tang and price-pate with truffles, cocks' combs and kidneys, diamondback rattlesnake. In 1885 it invented the steamer fruit basket, which proved so popular that Charles & Co. registered and still holds the grocery trade-mark "Bon Voyage." By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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