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...appointed by Italy) must reach a decision by July 25, failing which a fifth arbitrator will be chosen by the League Council. All five will be given until Aug. 25 to reach agreement, after which the League Council will take things over, scratch its head, ponder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dinner for Three | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...unhappy because Jack & Jean, the farmer's children, dislike milk. Orgets Bee & Baw retire to a dell to ponder Cow's plight, come upon two starving baby foxes. Back to the farmyard they flit, persuade Cow to lumber off to the dell with milk for the foxes. On the way clumsy Cow catches a hoof in a railroad track, is nearly killed by a train. Jack & Jean, overcome by Cow's bravery, agree to love her, drink milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Orgets | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Last year, having won what he tersely referred to in his annual report as "the case of the U. S. v. Weirton Steel Co." (famed test of the Recovery Act's labor section), Chairman Weir, found time to ponder finances. Mr. Weir thinks that a big debt is a good thing for a company because it makes everyone work harder but he saw no reason for paying 5% for nearly $40,000,000 of borrowed money when he could pay 4%. Moreover, he was planning for his Detroit plant a new wide strip sheet mill, which is an appallingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kuhn, Loeb at Work | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...combatants, and Ely ordered the steward to draw a chalk line on the floor under the middle of the table "to avoid further trouble." Then Sims enraged Culbertson in the one hundred and thirteenth rubber by protesting that eighteen minutes was a little too long a time to ponder before playing a single card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOUT POUR LE SPORT | 4/12/1935 | See Source »

Coughlin has been blowing off a lot of poppycock for the past two years and so far no one has questioned his mental fitness to ponder such matters, let alone broadcast his views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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