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Still I was undecided about the CRIMSON--they wouldn't accept my contributions to the Confidential Guide to College Courses, giving me some silly excuse about having no money to defend libel suits. That was uncalled for, because I've always loved my teachers. Back in the sixth grade in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICH BRIBE LURES JOE FORECAST AGAIN INTO GLARE OF LIMELIGHT | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

Hundreds of square miles it covered, the broad upper valley of the Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Golden Ghost | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

The student from a private school lands in college on his feet; at least as far as the general tenor of his life is concerned. From the first he takes the lead in extra-curricular activities. He enters the various competitions and pears off the prizes. Thus he becomes a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN GREENOUGH'S REPORT | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

Who has not at one time or another met a hearty uncle who came down to breakfast rubbing his pink-and-pearly hands together and blustering, "Well, well, well! Good morning, good morning! Have you used Pears soap?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jollycos | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

At the Topsfield Fair in Boston a fortnight ago, two sleek, kindly horses-a white and a chestnut- followed a young woman up a runway to a diving platform. Below, an announcer was explaining how these Percherons had never been shod with iron to pull men's burdens, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Undesirable | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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