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...Stars prick the eyes with sharp ammoniac proverbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bridge-Builder | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...masses of females who inhabit the college on the other side of the Common. Man, with his brutal instincts, has shoved cowering womankind from her place in the sun. While Harvard, heralded far and wide as the innovator of the House Plan, has swelled triumphantly, somebody has tried to prick the bubble by cracking the old one of "I've heard that before." After patiently enduring the quips and cranks of newspapers' showering encomium on Harvard, the demure and reticent damsels of Radcliffe have determined to toot their own horn. "Gallons of printer's ink," they believe, have been wasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIDENS LAMENT | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

Happy Valley, Tenn., was full of new trouble last week. Ten thousand idle hands itched with mischief. Strikers from the American Bemberg and Glantzoff artificial silk factories at Elizabethton, Tenn., felt the prick of National Guard bayonets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Happy Valley | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...girl was next brought in. She, pretty Maria Elena Manzano, 21, had previously confessed that Mother Concepcion told her to dance with General Obregon and prick him with a poisoned lancet. Further she stated that she had been upbraided by Mother Concepcion for losing her nerve and failing to prick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Immaculate Nun | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...tutorial systems in the world. Yes, a larger and more beautiful stadium would be just as desirable and welcome as a ventilating system in the basement of Widener;--but let us give some real meaning to a debating union by bringing to its forum the intellectual problems that prick the consciences of our undergraduates and by making it a hot bed where ideas can germinate and find a voice. Sydney Hubert Blackstone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Figs! | 3/22/1928 | See Source »

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