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...mammal and tamed; she has six sides, right, left, front, back, top and bottom. At the back end, there is a tail from which hangs a plume with which she drives off the flies so that they cannot fall in the milk. The head has for its aim to have horns and that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are there for horning, the mouth for chewing a cud. Under the cow hangs the milk and it is arranged to be milked. When people milk, the milk comes and there is never an end to the reserve. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Opinion | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Captain R. B. Lawson '32 of the University sabre team, and H. P. Walker '33 provided the amusement of the evening when they engaged in a sabre plume bout, in which each tried to knock a plume from the other's head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FENCERS FAIL TO CAPTURE OLYMPIC TRYOUTS | 2/12/1932 | See Source »

...Yard is a red brick Georgian dormitory which exhibits the simple grace of Puritan England. It is a very famous part of Harvard Great men have broken the ice in their water pails of a cold January morning in days past. Its name is the nom de plume of a contemporary writer. It has looked down upon the Yard while countless generations of Harvard men have trailed out of Sever, and it has seen many able presidents trip on the third stone step of University Hall as they mount for the day's work. For these reasons it is justly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/13/1932 | See Source »

Traffic slowed, necks craned upward one sunny afternoon last week as the airship Los Angeles, convoyed by a half-dozen planes, poked her way across mid-Manhattan. Presently the biggest of the planes began to fly in a mile-circle around the dirigible, spewing a lengthening white plume of vapor behind her. The trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Smokescreen | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Rose Milligan, a barmaid in Louth, Ireland, whose nom de plume on the ticket was "My Pub Now" because she had always wanted to own a saloon. She said that with her $50,000 she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweeps | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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