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...Pronounced "Quail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trail's End | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...victory. British sportsmen, dismayed by the fate of Eastcott, more anxious than cocky U. S. prognosticators, awaited news of the encounter of Roark and Hitchcock in the final chukkers of the Open Championship. Despite his successive defeats, friends of Soldier-Poloist Tremayne insist that he is not one to quail before enemy fire; that he will next year return to competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Open Polo | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...banana or flick ashes from a cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming at 2-in. blocks bobbing in water, he has scored eight hits to seven by a crack rifle shot. With both bait-and fly-casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge bait principally by sight rather than smell, he has cast an onion and caught a fish. He has caught bass with carrots, parsnips, beets, frankfurters, potatoes, corn-on-cob, string beans, cherries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fly Caster | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Ever to make the enemy quail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Junk-Emden | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Ganson '30, Carleton Green '30, D. S. Gruber '29, J. F. Harding '30, F. F. Hart '30, E. Huberman '29, J. K. Hurd '30, R. H. Jones '30, F. I. Kogos '29, J. L. McNamara '31, H. G. Meyer '30, Carl Miller '29, J. Moskovitz 1G.B., R. F. Quail '30, H. J. Slaughter '29, W. M. Smart Jr. '30, J. L. Ware '30, Norman Winer '29, H. A. Wolff '29, A. Wolper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRTY MEN TAKE PART IN ORATORICAL TRIALS | 3/6/1929 | See Source »

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