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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They flew to Washington where, at the French ambassador's, Joseph LeBrix tried to punch Dieudonné Costes' nose in the American manner. The French foot-fighting against the one-legged flyer manifestly would have been dastardly. For appearance's sake they restrained the show of their animosity as they flew across the U. S., as they sailed by ship to Japan, as again they flew across Asia and Europe, to Le Bourget Field at Paris. And there Flyer LeBrix had his great say. It was, harshly: "At last I have finished being valet to Costes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights of the Week: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

When the record of a certain hospital patient comes to the School, all the information about him, such as age, number of teeth, etc., numbering perhaps 500, facts, is put onto these cards by means of a code, a punch, for example, in row five column 37 meaning that the person in question is a convalescent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...mist sweep by. A lover of fine typography, Yeats himself prints books. His press is part of the Cuala Industries run by the Yeats family -one sister manages the embroidery department, another the hand-press, and a brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served in the Free State Senate since its origin. Resigned last month in favor of the easier Riviera, he will be missed for his infrequent but shrewd comment on political matters-he, the poet-creamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Age | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...loss of Fryberger, crack wingman and one of the leading scorers during the last two campaigns, who is suffering from a cut tendon. The Dartmouth six thus far has suffered but one defeat, that at the hands of Yale, but this setback came after much of the scoring punch had been extracted from its attack through the loss of Fryberger. Prior to this it had twice turned back Boston College and McGill and battled Toronto to a 2 to 2 tie. In Captain Morrill Bott, veteran goalie who is wearing the Green uniform for his third season. Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEXTET MEETS DARTMOUTH IN HANOVER TODAY | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...main street of a village, it has lately been advertised more widely than ever before by columnists, playwrights and criminals. One Way Street celebrates the murder of a golden-haired drug-peddler, one of Broadway's ,least notable miscreants, by an alien rustic whose sister had learned to punch herself with dope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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