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...being out of the publicity picture of a President on vacation in Florida, hired the Goodyear dirigible Defender and sent its Mayor C. H. Reeder and other potent citizens flying down the coast to the Hoover offshore fishing grounds. The Defender dipped low over the Saunterer, dropped a pouch on its deck containing a hail-and-farewell message from Mayor Reeder to the President. Only thus did Miami get into the Hoover holiday news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE-PRESIDENCY: Holiday's End | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Edward J. Pinc (alias Edward Bodery), 32, 6 ft. 2 in., 325 lb., brown hair, with two hands clasped over a heart tattooed on his left forearm, for the theft of U. S. mail pouch containing $16,500 in currency last March at Melrose Park, Ill. He wears a no. 12 shoe, smokes cigars continuously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...escapists looked like strange creatures from the marine underworld. To the face of each was attached one of the new Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: New Lungs | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...pointed leaves and graceful translucent green stems. Bladderwort carries little traps at the ends of stems. Really they are the size of pin heads. Enlarged they are three to four inches in diameter. When an animalcule touches the bladder (utricle) a flap snaps upwards; the beastie slips into the pouch; the trap springs shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnified Pond Scum | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...marsupial is an animal with a pouch for carrying young-opossum, kangaroo, wombat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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